Progress…
Bruce will probably come home today. I am picturing myself–tomorrow morning–writing.
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Entries by Bethany
15 minutes, a reprise
A conversation with a friend, earlier this summer, reminded me of this Author Magazine interview (I blogged about it last October, too). We’ve all heard the mantra, “One day at a time,” but sometimes 15 minutes is enough. Kim Kircher, in her memoir about her husband’s illness, and her work on ski patrol, makes it crystal […]
What August Is…
I had an interesting insight earlier this month, a small one — I could have missed it had I blinked. Most Tuesday mornings from 10-12 I join several other women to drink coffee and to read and talk about … well, about everything. We don’t all make it there every Tuesday, and we don’t always study what […]
Being 100% Present…
Yesterday Bruce had surgery — adhesions from scar tissue were causing the small bowel obstruction, and that (by this point) was the best case scenario. No bowel resection. No colostomy bag. He’ll spend another week in the hospital getting going again. And he HATES the hospital. When I work with my creative nonfiction students on […]