Tag: life changes
member name: Pina M.
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October 21, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
When I was 18 or 19, I had great plans for my life. I was in college studying abstract painting when this brilliant thought came to my mind one day while I was working in the studio, carefully applying . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:43 PM EST --
PART III
When I first moved back to New York the summer of 1977 and after I had settled into the apartment I shared on 103 street, I was pretty much consumed by two things: finding a job . . .
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October 22, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
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Before I careened into my marital fantasies, I continued my artistic pursuits, even though some plans I had were discarded in favor of the practicalities . . .
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December 02, 2006 01:03 AM EST --
REQUIEM FOR DINERO BOO, THE FINAL EVENING
PART 1
At night, in the distant past of our lives together
You brought me comfort,
Soothing
My loneliness, the bitterness and . . .
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February 23, 2008 10:34 PM EST --
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE FINE ART OF SAYING "NO"
They say "sorry" is the hardest word for many of us, but for me the word "no" has been my downfall. After . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part 1
When you first look at me, you wouldn't believe or think that I am sick, just as you wouldn't know I am . . .
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December 02, 2006 09:26 AM EST --
By now, you can pretty much surmise how great a mood I am in this morning. It's 7:40 a.m. and I have had maybe 4 hours of sleep, which is not all that unusual when I am under stress. We have . . .
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October 24, 2009 03:45 PM EDT --
WHERE I AM FROM, NOW:
SURVIVOR
(This is my first foray into writing about my cancer diagnosis since I finished the last of my treatment modalities in December 2008. Forgive it's . . .
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April 11, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
WRITTEN MARCH 16TH..AN INNER DIALOGUE DURING A BAD MONTH IN AN ALREADY BAD YEAR
Evening has faded into night now as I sit listening to the tinkling sound of ice falling against my home . . .
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May 19, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
When I was quite young it never occurred to me that one day my parents would die. Of course, as I matured and became aware of death once my grandparents died, I knew it would happen at some . . .
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November 25, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
Where I am From
I came from love, a second marriage of opposites
A love forged in passion and grace,
Entwined in inner sorrows, revealed when I matured
A gentle, . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Rumble and Roar
It starts quietly enough
this low sound
a rumble that comes from afar
a distant storm
dark clouds overhead, churning and twisting into monstrous shapes . . .
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December 25, 2006 09:52 PM EST --
Christmas in my home was always weird, or at least that is how I perceived it to be when I was a kid. This isn't to say I didn't have good Christmases, get great presents, eat lovingly prepared . . .
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March 23, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
ISN'T IT IRONIC?
A Karmic Journey
Of late, my life - such as it is now - is one so filled with the twists and turns of life's irony and Karmic energy I . . .
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October 09, 2008 10:06 PM EDT --
Today, just two hours after I returned home from my 6 month checkup with my breast cancer surgeon, I had to euthanize my 7th and youngest male cat, Ginger, a lovely orange and white, long . . .
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December 03, 2006 09:56 AM EST --
Morning has come. The sky is clear with some clouds overhead. It looks cold out, and I dread the coming of winter, my least favorite season. Light snow is coming tomorrow, and I will greet it with . . .
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September 22, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
In 1977/78, right after I lost the job at the lighting firm and started a new job two weeks later at a wing of New York's largest University . . .
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April 17, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
The Journey Revealed: Breast Cancer - Reality Sets In (Part 2)
Over thirty years ago I remember reading an article about Betty Rollin, a former NBC News Correspondent and . . .
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June 03, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
MEMORIES OF MOM
Today is my mother's 32nd death anniversary. In the motherless daughter's world this somber anniversary would be called Mom's Angel Day. Even though my mother remains a kind . . .
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