Posts Tagged: healing

An Online Chatting Momento

September 21st, 2011
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Courtesy of Good Magazine

You’re online and you decide you want to chat.  It’s a normal, casual thing that lots of people regularly do.  It saves time and money and you don’t think too much about what you’re saying to the other person except that you keep it brief.

 Blah, blah, blah…..blah, blah, blah.
Yet is online chatting really as casual as you think?

It’s popular now for people to save their chat records just as they save copies of their email correspondence or a voice message left on an answering machine. This is a new concept for me because … Read More

And the Winner Is…Amy Poehler

September 19th, 2011
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Tina Fey (left) and Amy Poehler (right) Comedian Amy Poehler broke new ground last night at the Emmys ceremony and I hope you saw it! I loved watching as the nominees for lead actress in a comedy series were read.  Amy’s name was first and she immediately jumped out of her chair, ran to the stage and then stayed there.  Nobody knew what she was doing but they knew it was going to be funny. Then as the rest of the category’s nominee’s names were read — Tina Fey, Martha Plimpton, Melissa McCarthy, Edie Falco and Laura Linney — each… Read More

It’s a Dot Com!

September 17th, 2011
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YEAH!! I finally figured it out! Cry, Laugh, Heal is now a dot com! I am so happy to announce that my Baby Blog has matured and become an Adult Dot Com! To my wonderful, fantastic readers who give me great feedback and support, I thank you so much!!!!!!!! Now you can type in http://www.crylaughheal.com/ and you will arrive at the same blog that you have been enthusiastically supporting for the last 10 months. Please continue to pass around the link and tell friends and family to “like” the Cry, Laugh, Heal Facebook page. MANY THANKS!!!!… Read More

Michelle Williams Now

September 14th, 2011
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Actress Michelle Williams is finding a place to heal. By setting her own pace and allowing herself to feel the pain and imbalance of grieving, Williams says she has found new strength, new energy and hope as she takes on the complex role of Marilyn Monroe.  In a new interview with Vogue magazine, Williams talks about the 2008 death of actor and ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger as a deep loss that continues to affect her outlook on life, changing her as a parent, a friend and as an actress.  But with the passage of time, she is rebuilding her life, adapting… Read More

Ted Olson On Loss & Love

September 12th, 2011
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There is no single path on the road to healing and resilience. Different people take different steps, drawing on their own strengths and what works best for them. Here is one person’s chosen path….Perhaps you can draw strength from Ted Olson’s grief experience. Ted Olson on loss and love  in the decade since 9/11 By Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger The Washington Post 9/12/11 Ted Olson in his office at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher last year. (Jahi Chikwendiu/ The Washington Post) Ted Olson spent his 71st birthday Sunday at his family’s lakeside property in Northern Wisconsin. He was invited to… Read More

9/11 — Ten Years Later

September 11th, 2011
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Photo by Newsday     Sadness…Awe…Gratitude…Grief.  All woven together, this is what I feel about 9/11, ten years later. Sadness and grief for the lives lost that awful day but gratitude and awe for the extraordinary memorial now in place at Ground Zero and the heroic efforts of fellow Americans who made it possible for survivors to talk about how they miraculously escaped the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Human strengths and human frailties live side by side today at Ground Zero in New York City, the Washington, DC Pentagon building and the field where Flight 93 crashed in… Read More

Mary Chapin Carpenter

September 10th, 2011
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Grand Central Station, New York City Here is a short clip of award-winning singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter eloquently telling the story that inspired her to write a new song titled, “Grand Central Station,” a song remembering another group of quiet heros from 9/11: the hundreds of people who diligently and passionately worked to clean-up and preserve the hallowed remains of Ground Zero. Please listen to it…….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04L5_cnFVC0 Thanks Ryan!!!!… Read More

Pause & Remember

September 9th, 2011
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Before the mantra was jobs, jobs, jobs, it was security, security, security. The security of our nation, the security of our borders, the security of our everyday lives was at the top of the nation’s agenda.  No one could do enough to make America safe and secure.  And we were willing to do whatever it took to make it happen: reduced civil liberties, metal detectors and wands, pat downs, no shoes.A decade later, 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden is finally dead as are some of his top operatives. But how safe are we? When the 10th anniversary of 9/11 arrives… Read More

One Hilarious Beach Memory

August 13th, 2011
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Photo By Emily Noonan My son and I vacation at Bethany Beach, the same beach we have been enjoying since he was a toddler.  It’s also the same beach where I vacationed as a child.  This conjures up all sorts of memories for both of us and it gives my son a sense of stability.  We can’t imagine going anywhere else. The first time we vacationed in Bethany after my husband’s death, it was jarring, but we stayed positive and survived.  I had some meltdowns but they were in private.  More importantly, keeping up the vacation tradition gave us confidence… Read More