It’s the beginning of a new work week and I’m going to be singing this Taylor Swift song to myself all day long. There’s something about this song that helps to keep me chugging along. Instead of getting worked up and reacting to situations I can’t do anything about, I’m going to be humming this… Read more »
Posts By: Mary Kate Cranston
Sleepy Time
I love the scent of lavender. Too bad there isn’t smell-a-vision for the picture above, right? At the farmer’s market near my office, a lavender farmer is one of the vendors and it is heavenly to smell the soaps, creams and oils he sells. I knew you could cook with lavender but I didn’t know that it had… Read more »
The Slip Slide of Time
Time just seems to slip slide away when you find yourself navigating a loss. I’m not talking about how quickly time can seem to go while living our lives. I’m talking about the strange sensation that where time seem to go back and forth between the past and present while trying to recover from a… Read more »
Small Things With Great Love
My small thing today is to take good thoughts, good vibes, good prayers and anything else that’s good and mix it with lots and lots of “great love” and send it directly to a very special woman who is going into surgery. She is a quiet fighter and I admire the way she has handled her… Read more »
Letting Go
Longer, warmer days are making me yearn for a simpler life. Lighter clothes and lighter food are definitely the way to go. There’s something about the change in seasons that makes me want to lighten my material load here on earth and get about to the de-cluttering of my nest. This past weekend I was cleaning… Read more »
Looking For Serenity
Resilience is having the ability to bend with change and when I am working on building emotional resilience within myself, I am reminded of Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous serenity prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference…. Read more »
Happiness Is A Choice
Today’s post is a continution of yesterday’s chat about life being easier to navigate when you embrace a positive attitude. As the below story says, happiness is a choice, and you can practice it as much as you want!! A very good friend sent me this story that was recently published in a British newspaper called The Guardian. It gently… Read more »
Being Positive
My son came home from college for a brief Easter break and happily it caused a shift in my outlook. For me, the take away message of his visit is all about the importance of having a positive attitude. Maybe it’s young energy or maybe it’s because he has a smaller plate of responsibilities than I do but… Read more »
Playing With The Moon
Playing With The Moon By Amir Jutt You invited us into the world of science and made us love it as you did. You taught us that writing simply and elegantly is not as easy as you made it look. You passed on more to us than you will ever know. For all of the… 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.
