One of the items on my so-called bucket list actually happened and I still pinch myself about the experience. After watching Saturday Night Live on television for many, many years, I finally got to go to a LIVE SHOW!! THANK YOU EMILY!!!!! It was fascinating, it was great fun, it was high energy, it was… Read more »
Posts By: Mary Kate Cranston
Your Personal Path
Unlike many things in life, there is no right or wrong way to grieve. There’s really just your way. Whether it’s through talking, crying, or slowly processing your feelings privately, grief must be acknowledged. If you try to suppress your grief feelings, they will only come back later on and sometimes they come back in… Read more »
Keeping Love In Your Heart
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller The human heart is an amazing organ isn’t it? We fall in love, break up, and then perhaps fall in love over and over again, testing the resiliance… Read more »
A Friend’s Good Bye Letter
Last week a childhood friend of my father’s died. They had known each other since they were in grade school and met each other while playing recess games on the black top when they were about seven or eight years old. They both went on to attend the same high school, playing basketball, and later… Read more »
Freedom & Bravery on Memorial Day
The smell of charcoal lighter fluid has been heavy in the air in my neighborhood this weekend which means that the grilling season is now officially open. Cookouts and parades are just two of the many ways we Americans mark the holiday of Memorial Day, a day when we pause and remember the bravery of… Read more »
Positive Vibes
I remind myself every day, all the time in fact, that I have a choice in how I decide to view the world. I can be negative about things, which is self-perpetuating and draining and doesn’t really get me anywhere. Or I can choose to think positively about the amazing and beautiful world around us. Positive thinking… Read more »
Heaven
There’s a place where we all want to end up. We know it by name but where is it? Where is Heaven? I was thinking about Heaven yesterday while attending the wake of a man who was one of my father’s best friends. This man was a good man, worked hard, had a wonderful wife and… Read more »
Socially Yours
Stories are constantly written about why we should strive to unplug from our computers, ipads, Smartphones and other electronic devices but I read a work colleague’s Facebook post yesterday and was reminded of how amazing social media truly is. I work with a young guy named Aaron Knights and he was at the incredibly tender… Read more »
Celebrity’s Healing Breakfasts
When I was a young girl in elementary school, my favorite breakfast was a cinnamon twist doughnut and orange juice. My father was the “Doughnut Man” on Sundays and would ask me and my five siblings what kind of doughnuts we wanted and then he would bring them back for us warmed up in a large white baker’s… 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.
