He’s an endurance runner. Not just measly 26-mile marathons, but 50K marathons. A “quick” run is 16 miles. It is way beyond my comprehension. He doesn’t just run long distances, but he enjoys the scenery as he runs, takes his time, feels each moment as he puts one foot...
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The 50K Dash
Single Mother vs. Surgery: No contest
Ab, Pre-Op, April 2, 2012 A call came that my surgery was bumped up by an hour, so I scrambled to find a different ride to the hospital since my previously scheduled ride couldn’t make the earlier time. The usual single mother dilemma. Another friend sweetly picked me up and...
...continue readingKnee Surgery, Theta Style
Image borrowed from www.wizardnow.com. Listen your way into a theta state. A friend told me about “Theta Healing” and the incredible experiences she has had with it, and so me being me, I had to check it out. Googling it, I learned that Theta healing is, in essence, a tapping...
...continue readingMy Knee Has Come To Say
I knew the popping sound the moment I heard and felt it and it gave me that sick feeling I aways used to get before surgery took care of it. But this was the other knee. A new era of instability was at hand and I was on the...
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I may need to get this brown corduroy vest as part of my new work ensemble. I seemed to have developed a certain amount of ambivalence with regard to my dating life which may be why this New York Times Article resonated with me. Sure, I still have my profile...
...continue readingBeing a Widow Versus Living Like One: Hanging up the Widow Yoke
This past weekend, I helped a widower friend clean out his basement where he had compiled a married life’s worth of junk. And books. Stacks and stacks of books that he tells me his wife had collected over the years. And I thought I was a book junkie! We...
...continue readingCalling In “The Next One”
Among the million other things I have on my plate at the moment, I am attempting to follow a seven-week course called “Calling in ‘The One’.” I mention this sheepishly, since it sounds kind of hokey. Plus, the website is all pink with lots of swirly script-type fonts, which...
...continue readingFear and Loathing in Date-land
Perhaps I need to reconsider the rock climbing idea... Nude Rock Climber - Photographed by Peter Torsal (http://www.torsal.de/) I got an email from a recent widow yesterday expressing fear of ever having a meaningful relationship again. I was at a bit of a loss about what to tell her....
...continue readingStill on that Love Addiction kick? Sheesh, will you give that up already?
I’ve been slogging away on my chapter about Love Addiction. I keep writing and every time I finish a sentence, it feels like the next sentence should be “I guess I really need to attend a Love Addicts Anonymous meeting.” I will admit that I am curious, but something...
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I got an email from a reader and asked her permission to post it here: Your book and posts have been a great source of comfort for me. ____ has been gone 14 months now and I feel myself slipping back into despair. Our children are 11 (boy) and 13...
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Learning to live again after the sudden death of my husband Arron on 9/11. I wrote my book, The Alchemy of Loss, as a testament to finding the silver lining of grief and loss, to discovering the defibrillator effect of trauma and its power to awaken us into really living. I now live in Seattle with my two teenaged kids.
