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Camp Widow Serendipity in 2025

September 25, 2024 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

CW bus on water in Seattle.

… two stories, one in process. … a story from 2023.                                          Two widows, two rocks, two husbands—integrity twice remembered. It was September of 2022 in Denver at the local community college. A widow, finding no […]

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Feeling all the Feels

July 31, 2024 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

How Grief Impacts Feelings At age 26, I received a helpful definition for feelings. You may be thinking that could be a bit late in life to receive information about something that impacts life on a daily basis and you would be right. Regardless of timing, I gratefully received this definition. “Feelings are spontaneous, inner […]

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A Widowed Introvert: Part Two

August 29, 2023 by Kathie Neff 2 Comments

Silouette of woman crying.

What Grief Adds to the Mix In talking with other introverts, many report that grief adds one more layer to navigate in the world. One more layer in addition to the fact that grief is overwhelming in and of itself. The introvert’s experience of grief is different…for me, it was almost an out-of-body experience. I […]

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Camp Widow Serendipity . . .

March 22, 2023 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Hands holding one rock each with the word "Integrity" painted on each rock.

… a story. It was September of 2022 in Denver at the local community college. A widow, finding no support options in Mississippi, arrives via a road trip where Soaring Spirits is offering a one-day program for widowed people. What was she thinking when she arrived? She did not know a soul and discovered the […]

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In Between

December 7, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

and Betwixt. I’m ill with Covid.   Illness is one of those things; a part of life; an activity of the living.   In between and betwixt countless other dailies that are just for me now.   Tomorrow is back again already.   Trying to stay in the now.   And still keep up as […]

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Missing

November 22, 2022 by Kathie Neff 1 Comment

Rose colored matching man's shirt and a woman's dress

It began with a need for a garment bag the kind from the cleaners with its pre-slit hole for the hanger — dry cleaners size — with child safety warning included.   I doubted I had one but went into my closet searching for a stray lingering on the closet rod.   I notice a […]

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Finding My Way in Year Two

October 18, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Which Direction? Which Decision? Being lost is not new to me. My inner navigation plan is usually this: If you think you should turn right, it is highly likely you should turn left. Truth. I admire those who have a born sense of direction—like my husband. The kids often tell tales of being on a […]

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Fall Down Seven Times

August 3, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Stand Up Eight On this early morning I am thinking about death. The loss of my beloved life-partner demonstrated death to me on the closest level possible. Which takes me to the next thought, I, too, will die. Thoughts such as this come without warning, arriving like fog. One day they are far from your […]

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Nightmares Now and Then

August 18, 2019 by Sarah Treanor and Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve had some really weird and disturbing dreams the past week. The sort of dreams that don’t really relate to anything in my actual life but have lots of very stressful or strange things going on in them. In these dreams, nothing appears to relate to my actual life in any particular way. Nothing symbolic even seems to be obviously about my…

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Understanding “Freedom”

July 6, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

The Fourth of July – All things summer right? It’s cookouts, pool, family, sunscreen and fireworks. All the freedoms you get living in the good ole USA. It’s funny how the word freedom is used. By definition, freedom means you are not enslaved or forced to act or be a certain way. You are not trapped. Of course, for the USA freedom means all of…

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The Scariest Part of Surgery

June 1, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

This blog will be short because I had a lasik procedure this week and my eyes get tired quickly.I’ve never been one to be comfortable with eye stuff. I hate eye drops and the thought of contact lenses makes me cringe but I was so fed up with glasses that I decided to go through with the surgery and get it over with. As the day got closer, I got…

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Defiantly Defined

May 18, 2019 by Bryan Martin Leave a Comment

So this blog is a bit different than I usually write. This week I’ve been obsessed with terminology. Have you ever stopped for a minute and thought about words? Where did they come from? How they got their meaning and if they fit? Well it hit me this week that I HATE the terms widow and widower. I think the definitions are ridiculous and need to…

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