Tag Archives: death

Spirit/Essay. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Posted on September 1, 2018 by healingwoman

U.S. Senator John McCain will be buried today, one of many people throughout the world: some famous, many little known, too many unknown except to families or to God. Some people will have no one to bury them. When I … Continue reading →

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Mind: Talking about suicide so we decrease the number of people who die by suicide.

Posted on June 8, 2018 by healingwoman

Suicide is not reversible. Stop before you do it….. I wanted to post on mental health in May but did not because I wanted current statistics: When I last researched mental health five or six years ago, the World Health … Continue reading →

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Spirit/Essay. Of mirrors and marathons. Reflections five years after Hell came home.

Posted on April 17, 2018 by healingwoman

It is April in New England, and the marathon has come again. Since 2013, race day is not a simple joy anymore. It is the anniversary of a bombing. It is the day we learned how strong we really were, … Continue reading →

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Spirit/Essay. Finding Power in Powerlessness.

Posted on January 8, 2018 by healingwoman

Once, I thought empowerment was finding abilities and building life on use of them. Then I survived a summer of powerlessness. One July day, I met an email friend and drove her to Salem. As a European, she was fascinated … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Destination and the Journey.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by healingwoman

If we return at death from where we came, what is life? Everything in between. ——————- In “The Doomsday Book,” a young woman, an Oxford history student, has the chance to time travel to the middle ages. She becomes ill … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Storm.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by healingwoman

Twenty years ago, there was a blizzard on April first, with snow that came over my knees. This year, on the anniversary, there was a smaller storm. My life is captured in the brackets. Then, we thought we knew what … Continue reading →

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Essay. Milestones……..

Posted on March 1, 2017 by healingwoman

I am currently planning Joseph’s 22nd birthday, when he moves from special education for autism to an adult group home. The night he was born, I hemorrhaged after he was delivered in an emergency Cesarean section. The obstetrician said we … Continue reading →

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Essay. My Life in Pets VI. Lily and Dying.

Posted on November 19, 2016 by healingwoman

I wrote about Lily’s vibrancy in my last post, and she was vibrant up to the moment she died. I know because I spent that long day with her, including that final moment. How do I describe what cannot be … Continue reading →

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Essay. My Life in Pets V. Lily and Motherhood.

Posted on October 26, 2016 by healingwoman

I got Teddy to make my husband happy. Lily came when Teddy got lupus and I panicked at a possible dogless life. Lily lived with the fear there was a party somewhere she was missing. She never missed one. Lily … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Road Home.

Posted on August 31, 2016 by healingwoman

After a long, hot, drought-stricken summer, autumn is here. The dogs chased balls today without starting to pant. One day this week I wore jeans comfortably rather than shorts. In an earlier time, before we had dogs and a child, … Continue reading →

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