Hey there Resilient Readers: It’s the Monday of Christmas week and today I am going in an entirely different direction; one that is fun and healing and in tune with the holiday spirit. It’s a post that I hope makes you smile and perhaps reminisce about your own unfulfilled but fond dreams. I have a… Read more »
Posts By: Mary Kate Cranston
Helping Teenagers With Grief
We are deep into the season of celebrating the holidays and messages of merriness are everywhere. But what happens to teenagers when they are trying to cope with school and social pressures and then the parent of one of their friends dies? Or someone in their family dies? Adults are busy tending to shopping, decorating,… Read more »
Riding Waves of Adversity
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer ~ Albert Camus
Tossing Broken Glass
The other morning I woke up and immediately went downstairs to the kitchen to have my first cup of hot tea. I have been fighting a cold and cough and was looking forward to its warmth. I was still not quite awake when I opened up the cabinet door to grab my favorite mug featuring… Read more »
A Lovely Diamond Heart
And then there are acts of love that people randomly do that are often so selfless as to take your breath away. Upon reading the healing and tender story from Associated Press I am sharing below, I think it definitely fits into the category of giving when it hurts. The giving part of the story involves… Read more »
A Cheeky Children’s Christmas Pageant
Many, many years ago, when the grandchildren in our family were actually children, my Mom and Dad would let them go wild in their linen closet and take any of the sheets, towels, bedspreads and table cloths they wanted to create costumes and then put on a home production of the birth of Jesus on… Read more »
Survivor Friday
I’m blowing my nose and coughing while waiting for the Airborne to dissolve in a glass of water. Ugh! I have a cold. But I’m going to carry on and I’m so thankful that it’s Friday. How are you doing out there? Glad for the week to end? Here we go with a song to inspire… Read more »
Ways To Change the Holiday Menu
I was a very fat baby. A happy baby but also an overweight baby. I have this theory that all of those fat cells from my infancy are still with me, lying dormant, and whenever I decide to indulge in all things buttery and/or sugary, those same fat cells immediately wake up because they instinctively know… Read more »
4 Awesome Days
“When we make room for silence we make room for ourselves… silence invites the unknown, the untamed, the wild, the shy, the unfathomable- that which rarely has a chance to surface within us.” Gunilla Norris – Sharing Silence From Thanksgiving to yesterday. These past four days have been amazing! I can’t believe how much I… Read more »
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A blog about moving through grief by developing resilience, practicing wellness & finding the wicked funny side of life. Widow. Mom. Writer. Dancer.
