When the World Shatters

The trendy term for this is "deconstructing my faith".I want you to know - I do not care one whit about "trendy".​Names, terms, clothes, or anything else. Trends come. Trends go.What I need in my life is SUBSTANCE.This is me breaking down into parts,

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Books are Magical

I have always loved to read ... reading takes me wherever I want to go - to another place, another time.However, grief has changed my reading habits. It is more difficult to keep my attention in a book, for my thoughts and memories wander more often these days. I get lost in remembering the many, many, many books that Rick and I shared - how that we would read them often aloud to one another ... and how that we always discussed the books we were reading individually or together.I miss that. 

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My Shoebox

When I was a little girl, our house was filled with kids - cousins, nieces, nephews, and all those that sometimes came with those.

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