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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 12

If we’ve been fortunate enough to have been on the receiving end of kindness, we’ve got role models who have set the bar high

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Wednesday, July 03, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 11

Clearly, reframing involves redefining terms like “happiness”

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 10

There is a great deal of exposure when you write about your personal life and struggles

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 9

The questions I’m referring to are those that keep whirling around in our heads without any hope of resolution

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 8

On two separate days, a few months apart, I arrived at the facility to hear devastating news

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Wednesday, June 05, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 7

Writing is a way to feel some small sense of control over our lives in those circumstances. When I wrote in my journal, worked on a memoir, and then published my novel, Griefwriti ...

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 6

There would be no Zumba classes for me. I definitely was not going to join a senior citizens’ center

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 5

A discussion of what not to say would surely include the following question about a dementia patient: “Does he still recognize you?”

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 4

Calamity is the surest test of friendship, and from its onset sets in motion a nearly foolproof process of discovering who your true friends are

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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 3

Over time, I took over all the tasks my husband z”l had been in charge of, jobs for which I had little aptitude and that I had avoided all my life

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Wednesday, May 01, 2019

A Fading Light: Chapter 2