Posts Tagged ‘health’

Remembering to Savor the Total Sensory Delights of Food, Drink, People, and the Present Moment!

September 21, 2025

One of the things about writing deep and heavy things is that while I don’t shy from them, I do take time to savor the gift of the present moment. So today’s entry is a “Respite from that writing,” and a gift to my readers…

My neighbor stood at my front door, hands outstretched, holding a bag of treasure! Well, treasure to me, given my love of all things coffee. There is so much that excites me about it that goes beyond just getting a hit of caffeine.

First, it was just the joy of seeing my neighbor standing there. Second, it was the pleasant surprise of that bag of coffee she was gifting me. And third, it was her lovely comment that she wanted to give it “just to celebrate ‘me’.” How can you not love a gift like that?

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Structuring My Memoir…Start With the Visuals

January 4, 2025

Picture of a huge sheet of paper with story details mapped on it; also a pen, and a box of index cards of notes, and another folded sheet of paper with life timeline on it
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How to tell the story

Aside from making order out of chaos by deciding which of life’s millions of details to include or leave out, there is the issue of how to order the book and tell the story. I am still working on that. But at least for the first draft stage, I have a rough outline to follow as I write.

Introduction & “in media res”

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The Place My Body Remembers, But I Don’t

December 7, 2024

Back to the beginning…

Color photo of an old two-family house in Torrington, CT, with the number 57 on the porch post.
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“What do you do when the person you are dependent on for safety becomes the source of danger

Dr Becky Kennedy on parenting and how trauma happens
https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-becky-kennedy-protocols-for-excellent-parenting-improving-relationships-of-all-kinds

57 xxxx Avenue, Torrington, 1955-1957

In one respect, I wish I could go back in time to 1955-1957 and be a fly on the wall in this apartment. But maybe it’s better I can’t. Whatever went on at 57 xxxx Avenue is something I will never know because I can’t remember…consciously. But boy my body does.

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The Gift

March 22, 2008

“It is not good for all your wishes to be fulfilled: through sickness you recognize the value of health, through evil the value of good, through hunger satisfaction, through exertion, the value of rest.”

Heraclitus