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  • Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

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  • We will get through this. And we will be better for it.

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  • Have we reached the light at the end of the tunnel?

    • August 6, 2018
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  • It’s ok to die.

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    Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

    • March 19, 2022
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    “Oh no. Look Mom!” my son exclaimed as we pulled into the driveway. I looked and didn’t see anything. “Above Grandma’s window,” he pointed. I looked again and saw it. The siding – siding I spent five-figures to replace last summer – was waving in the spring wind like a sheet. We hopped out, and…

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  • We will get through this. And we will be better for it.

    • May 22, 2020
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    Grief is natural. So is healing.

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  • Have we reached the light at the end of the tunnel?

    • August 6, 2018
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    It’s my birthday today. The fifth birthday I’ve had since my husband died. And like all birthdays and holidays since my husband died, it has left me feeling slightly out…

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  • Burn it All Down

    • April 7, 2018
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    I am possibly a little melancholy today because I signed up for a free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited (that’s an affiliate link, there) and have now listened to the…

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  • My Favorite Books from 2017

    • February 5, 2018
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    Note: I participate in the Amazon Associates program which means that I may receive a small commission (at no cost to you) from purchases made through the Amazon links in…

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  • It’s ok to die.

    • January 8, 2018
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    Modern medicine makes it hard to die. Not that it’s physically hard to die. Plenty of people do that every day from illnesses ranging from the mundane to the mysterious.…

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  • The Year of Using it Up

    • January 1, 2018
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    How did 2017 treat you? The year felt so long that I don’t even remember what all happened in the last 12 months. I know we ended on something of…

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Maryalene LaPonsie

In a former life, I was a legislative staffer. Now, I am a personal finance writer, mother of five and keeper of memories for my late husband.




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