THE TALK WE NEED TO HAVE, PART III
I will never forget walking on a track with a physician. Our conversation centered around Bioethics, Whe is the right time to say to a doctor, “Let my loved one go?” He cited several instances when...
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Great American Urn Company - Cremation Urns for Ashes
Great American Urn Company in Greer, SC makes beautiful, custom handcrafted cremation urns for you to remember your loved one by. Contact us about ordering and shipping of one of our artisan urns. Our...
View ArticleFear of Dying
Fears of one thing or another plague us all of our lives; some struggle more than others, but we all
View ArticleA letter to my grandmother
Dear Nanny, It’s been almost seven years that you have been gone and the world is still spinni
View ArticleHow We Say Goodbye
https://themirrorobscura.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/how-we-say-goodbye.mp3 How We Say Goodbye It begins early. A broken bird, frantic, Caught. Tenderness nesting it inside A shirt. The shoebox top...
View ArticleThe River of Life
The river of life flows as it should. Our days come and go like moments in time. For each of us ther
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Dear Jay #2: I've been talking at your picture lately
Hey baby, I changed my screensaver to one of my favorite pictures of you – when you posed with your new bicycle right in front of the roses, the bike the kids and I bought for you. There are a lot of...
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PASSING ON.
A friend of many, many years has just died and I believe is now with those she loved and missed dearly who had gone before her. Death is just another step in our journey but it causes so much pain to...
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Do Pets Go To Heaven?
WILL I SEE MIKEY IN HEAVEN? MIKEY IS STILL HERE BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING WITH HIM IN HEAVEN! Will I see my pet’s spirit after they pass on? This is a question that is often asked,...
View ArticleTalking Shop
I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but I’ve noticed, that I haven’t been posting. Lord knows I’ve wanted to. Blogging serves many purposes for me, as I’m sure it does for you: catharsis,...
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Let's Start Over
I’m going to refresh this blog. Today is a new day and a new beginning. Get ready. Not sure what’s going to come of this. Just know that life is too short to screw around worrying about it too much!
View ArticleIt Was Lost at Sea
Imagination Takes me down Into the depths Of a murky sea For it is there an Ancient vessel lies Buri
View ArticleQ&A
I have a lot of questions that will always remain unanswered. Was there something I could have done? Was there something I could have done differently? Was this preventable? How did I miss the signs?...
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To Debbie on her fiftieth birthday
Instead of celebrating your milestone birthday and welcoming you into our chapter of the AARP club, we your loving family, are left with memories of great times spent together. Pictures documenting our...
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Just One Wish
Just One Wish By: Janette Rallison Perspective: A 17 year old sibling of a 6 year old with a brain tumor. Overall impressions: This book, while entertaining, is not one of the better books I have...
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Compassion and The Living Dead
Death of an Inner City Seagull I’ve been aware for some time now, of a surge of focus on taxidermy art and art made from road kill. When I was exhibiting in London at the end of last year I heard...
View ArticleI Wonder Who They Were
His hands were wrinkled and worn from years of hard work. The paths of his life were etched on his f
View ArticleFault Lines
Last week, a writer friend ‘fessed to our online group that this birthday, her 45th, had her f
View ArticleFor a Moment
The other day I thought I saw you at the park where you used to play. For a moment, it seemed you we
View Article'The animals' - how a kid became a vegeterian
Guys, this kid really impressed me. How many adults do reflect on life and death like this young boy? How old is he… four? He moved his own mother so deeply that she started to cry. For English click...
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