Following-up to yesterday’s post about writing as a way to process your thoughts and emotions, I just wanted to add a few quick thoughts. We want and need to connect to each other because we are human. Reaching out to one another, expressing our thoughts and emotions is essential.Otherwise, we are isolated and afraid; cut off from… Read more »
Posts By: Mary Kate Cranston
Writing Through Your Emotions
To me, processing or working through difficult emotions such as grief, anger, frustration and confusion, is in a sense, breaking down the walls of why I feel a certain way. Once I think I have figured out a pretty good reason why I think this is happening, I try to either get rid of as much of the feeling as… Read more »
Snowy Surprise
I went to the kitchen window early this morning and expected to see the bare concrete of the sidewalk and instead saw snow covering the ground and all of the surrounding cars and trees. I had heard some talk of snow coming to the Washington, DC area yesterday on the news but the forecasters are… Read more »
Michael J. Fox’s Morning
Good Morning, Morning. I have a mindless routine in the morning, the same routine that I follow each work day. I am never really ready to do anything until I have had at least one cup of hot tea. I think I definitely take for granted that I can get myself going in the morning without… Read more »
Wishing You Serene Thoughts. . .
Look Well To This Day Look well to this day, For it and it alone is life. In its brief course Lie all the essence of your existence: The Glory of Growth The Satisfaction of Achievement The Splendor of Beauty For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is but a vision. But today well… Read more »
I Think I Can
Happy Friday Everyone!! It feels good to reach the end of a work week, especially when we have a three day week-end in front of us. Most of us will not have to go to work on Monday since it is Inauguration Day, the day when President Obama is sworn into his second term in… Read more »
A Year of Blessings
How Have You Been Blessed? I know we are in the middle of January, but I just saw this idea on a website called The Honest Company (www.honest.com) and I wanted to share it right away. Hopefully, this idea is new for you too! Here’s the basic idea: At the beginning of a new year,… Read more »
Revisiting Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak is known as an internationally renowned prize-winning children’s book author and illustrator but he also has a message for adults too. When children read his most famous book, “Where The Wild Things Are,” they run around and play as if they are monsters, just like the ones in Sendak’s book. Spontaneously and instantly, children enter Sendak’s… Read more »
That’s What Friends Are For
This past weekend I met up with three of my best girlfriends to celebrate my recent birthday. I have known these special women for decades and we have been through a lot with each other and for each other. Birthdays, weddings, funerals, break-ups, new jobs, new houses, vacations — we have been through it all! The beauty… 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.
