Fall

I wrote this on the Saturday Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed for his position on the Supreme Court. My husband and I hiked in the White Mountains of New Hampshire today. I thought I might fall. I climbed the mountain on fire, her trees changing leaves burned red, yellow, and orange around me. My footing on …

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From Tar

Amidst an epidemic, my husband is 540 days clean from heroin. Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is. -Marianne Williamson This morning my husband went somewhere before work to get a space heater for his office. …

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White Christmas

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the …

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More

Days sober: 377 The fear has fallen away leaving space for MORE. Living with and loving an actively using addict was maddening, soul crushing, chaos. Prison walls closing in, life a small cell. There was only room for fear. I never want to go back. On October 8, 2017 my husband celebrated one year of …

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A Life in Images: Through Our Eyes

These are photographs taken by me and my husband. "Time as we know it was created by man." -Me "One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right." -Robert Frost "The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. …

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