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This Corner of Empathy

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I got up to write. Then I didn’t. I opened my laptop and the first screen I saw was my email. How very Zen. As if staring at email for nine hours of my workday isn’t enough. Google Analytics was telling me the Juggling Rainbows website had issues with ‘page indexing’. Well shoot. Better get […]

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I can do sudden. In fact, over the last decade, I feel like it’s been my jam. The gut punch nauseating unable to stand feeling of receiving “the news” is almost…familiar. So when one of my best friends, Barb, went on hospice a few weeks ago, I felt like a total newbie.  What do I […]

Hospice Newbie

Grief

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Here we go. I can get through this. I know they want me to try. I don’t feel like trying. This is too hard. Please make the hurting stop. I don’t have it in me. It shouldn’t be this way. But it is. So I’ll be brave. It’ll get better. I just have to keep […]

Merry & Bright is Allowed to Come in Waves

Grief

In my first book I talk about how much I love Halloween…and sarcasm. That’s right. I have never really been a fan of the frightful holiday. Masks smell weird, anything scary is the opposite of a good time and the FDA has allowed chocolate to taste even more generic and non-chocolatey than ever. But probably […]

Halloween Least Favorite Holiday

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In my first book I share about the loss of my first son and how I was able to find empathy, humor and a new found appreciation for the tears. 

My honest view of life with grief and parenting after loss.

My First Memoir