Leaving The Door Open

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  • I Have A Tale to Tell

    I Have A Tale to Tell

    I have to share upfront that I am unabashedly piggybacking off of Vicki Atkinson’s post about the power of song and its cathartic abilities to bring us to tears in certain moments; particularly while in the car. Click here for her post. Her post got…

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  • A Conversation with Sharon Marchisello

    A Conversation with Sharon Marchisello

    In early 2000, author Sharon Marchisello’s mother, Lolita, seemed to understand that something was different and once told her daughter “Losing your mind is a…

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  • A New Me

    A New Me

    On the morning I was scheduled for my appointment, I woke to loud thunder and lightning. I got up and walked in the dark through…

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  • Delta Developments

    Delta Developments

    Ten days ago, I began to receive an unsettling drumbeat of emails from the senior residential community where my 91-year-old mother Ginny lives. August 28th:…

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  • Saving Lissa

    Last week, I was digging through a stack of aging, faded newspaper articles I wrote as a free-lancer back in the late 1990’s, hoping to…

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