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90Grief ~ How Long Does It Last?
I am grieving. Every morning I wake up to the knowledge that my husband is not beside me. All through the day I work from home, alone, on the creations from the Memory Quilts business I have started, and my time awake would be silent if not for...
112 comments82Soldiers, Dear John's, and Vietnam - Memorial Day After the Parades
I am a female. I’ve never been to war. I know only the stories told to be by those who were there and by the look in their eyes when they talk and when they don’t. My husband was a Marine. He had three tours in Vietnam. I have stories...
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82Lighthouses
my Isla womanNshadows. Photo credit: womanNshadows Everyone has one. They feel their life has become a metaphor that, though they are nothing alike it reality, in the most basic of ways they are the same. Grief for example has been given...
12 comments76The Things I Learned From My Husband's Death
My husband died suddenly two months ago. It was so very cold that night and we had just gone to bed. I was snuggled safely beside him, my hand on his chest and his arm around me. Then his breathing changed. I could not wake him. I called to...
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73Memory Quilts ~ the Stories Behind the Quilts
My days are filed with sewing what I've started calling Memory Quilts. It has become a job that I equate with being a bartender. People come to me to provide a service and they sit and tell me their stories. I am on my fourth Memory Quilt and...
7 comments74The 5, 3, 7 Stages of Grief or Que Sara Sara
People have studied grief, I’m sure before, Kubler-Ross, and we know they have since. Churches, mental health organizations, and individuals who have seen it, lived it, or been involved with it have...
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71No Sewing Machine? Hand Sew a Memory Quilt
I love to sew. It is relaxing for me and lately has been a source of comfort. I haven't had a sewing machine in years now. I do everything by hand. I'd like to tell you how easy it is to make a memory quilt by hand with all the clothes and...
81Rockport, Massachusetts ~ A Beautiful Place and Why I Could Never Live There Again
i love Rockport, Massachusetts. i always have, even before i lived there. after i married my Marine, we moved out there to get away from everything and everyone. my children were grown and out on their own so we could live anywhere we wanted. so...
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78Memory Quilts - Tangible Solace During Grief
on the back burner, my own Husband Quilt is slowly getting done. Several weeks ago I wrote a hub about my Husband Quilt. It became a hubnugget of which I felt very humble, but it turned into something bigger....
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73Dogtown, Gloucester, MA
When you think about eastern Massachusetts, most people instantly think about cities and towns like Boston, the historic Lexington/Concord area, Walden pond, industrial Lowell, and when imagining the areas of...
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