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My Parents’ Wedding Day

Posted on July 10, 2017 by

By Georgia Lee ( From “A Father’s Legacy – Your life story in your own words”) Dad’s journal. Journal Prompt: Tell me about your wedding day. What Happened? How did you feel? Were you nervous, scared, Happy? GOOD LORD! Again, … Continue reading →

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MENTAL ILLNESS – a mother speaks

Posted on June 4, 2015 by

I’m crying as I write this. This past Easter Sunday – visiting hours at Peachford Hospital. I am alone. My son, 26, unshaven, shaking, in flip-flops and torn clothes he slept in, sits alone at a table, peeling a tangerine. … Continue reading →

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HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND EMBRACE BEING ALONE (even on your birthday)

Posted on April 14, 2015 by

“Since I gave up all hope, I feel so much better” – anonymous   I write this on my 61st birthday. I chose to be alone, and fled to the wilderness. Rather than dancing at a drunken Bacchanal or a romantic … Continue reading →

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MOTHERS DAY POST MORTEM – Birth, Death and Blue Hydrangeas

Posted on May 12, 2014 by

  BIRTH – MAY 2, 1989 9:35 p.m.   “Is he all there? Arms, legs, fingers?” First words, after an eight-pound, 23-inch ball of flesh ruptured out of me. For eight months, since that drunken Labor Day weekend before I … Continue reading →

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