…on brain freeze and the trauma of suicide

Break the pattern… that was the directive from my heart as I was working on an advocacy approach to ending bullying in October of 2013.  I had spent a lifetime overcoming those patterns in my own life and felt pretty successful in helping my kids navigate it for themselves. I called it successful because they…

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…on hashing out the “if’s” and “when’s”

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post stating that I was going to take a little break from writing — needing to step back to see exactly what it was that I needed to step up to do.  I had started this blog after taking an impromptu trip to LA to attend…

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…on what made today “the” day

  At a little after 9 on the evening of October 23, 1989 I thought it was too late to call my dad.  I had just gotten off the phone with my sister in Arizona — I had called to tell her I was pregnant.  It was my first and I had just been to…

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