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The Man Behind “Mr. Selfdidge”
I’ve been watching the ITV show, Mr. Selfridge, about Harry Selfridge, the American who transformed British retail, and it got me curious as to how much of the salacious tale was actually true. He was one of the retail magnates that dominated the changing world in the late Victorian period,…
The Beguines – medieval upstart mystic feminists
I’m reading a book called Growing Into God, a Beginner’s Guide to Christian Mysticism right now, and I just finished a chapter on Meister Eckhart, the 13th century German theologian (who has the wonderful quote, “if the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, it will be enough”).…
Ben Franklin and Self Improvement
I’ve been reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin the past week or so (it’s a fast read, but it competes with the other books – I’m not a “one book at a time” kind of girl) and I’m noticing that one common thread throughout his life was his constant striving for…
Pens: A History
I love pens. I absolutely adore pens. Gel pens are my favorite, specifically the Muji gel pens that I discovered while living in London. They were cheap, came in lovely colors, and were so nice to write with. I used to have a pen blog, where I’d post about my favorite…
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and All Manner of things shall be well: Julian of Norwich
I’ve had several signs pointing me to the writings of Julian of Norwich lately. She was a fourteenth century anchoress and Christian mystic, who, when she was 29 years old, was deathly ill. While on her sickbed, she had sixteen visions of Christ, starting when she saw the garland wreath…
An Introduction to My Grief
On October 12 2010 I became a statistic when my previously-perfect pregnancy ended at 21 weeks in a horrific miscarriage. While I fretted and worried from the moment I found out I was pregnant (was that frappuccino I had the other night really bad? I had a hot dog at…
The Top Things to Not Say to a Grieving Woman: Feb 4, 2011
After losing Baby Teysko, we received a huge amount of sympathy cards and emails, and people were incredibly gracious, kind, and understanding. There were a few well-meaning souls who really shouldn’t have said anything, though, because even though their intentions were to be helpful, they were some of the most…
My Grief is an Untrained Pitbull: December 23, 2010
The funny thing about grief is how it follows you everywhere. It’s like when you were in sixth grade and there was a third grader who thought you were awesome and kept popping up in the lunch room and the library to ask you what you thought about his teacher,…
Preparing for a Stillborn: January 26, 2011
I hang out a lot on the grief board of a pregnancy website. Not as much as I used to, though. When we first lost Baby T, I was on that board every hour, checking messages, finding others who had gone through the same thing, reassuring myself that this pain…
The First 7 Days of Grief: A User’s Guide
I am struggling with writing this Grief Blog. On one hand, I don’t want to dwell in my grief, simmer in it, because then I’ll become part of the Grief Stew, and I fear it will overtake me. On the other hand, though, there is all this emotion that…
I should be 7 months preggo; not peeing on sticks
Wise people (the peaceful people who meditate and quote Confucius) say that things are the way they are, and they aren’t the way they aren’t, and all pain in life comes from the struggle of not accepting that things can never be any other way than how they are in…
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