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Today I have the pleasure of being a guest on Divorce Sucks: A Smart Girl’s Guide to Doing  it Better, hosted on VoiceAmerica by Laura Miolla (Divorce Coach, creator of MoxieLife.com).  The program airs live today at 10 a.m. California time, 1 p.m. Eastern time.   It’s available on demand at any time after that.  Click […]

I didn’t think he cared. Twice weekly visits seemed enough for him, A dinner, a chat, an update on life and school. No more, no less. Neither shallow nor deep. A hug goodbye, a wave, the door would shut, we would drive away and our life would go on. It wasn’t until years later in […]

Five months ago, our orange and white tabby was hit by a car and killed. Cinder was his name and he was a bit of a local celebrity. The second half of his life he took to roaming the neighborhoods and hanging out at our local high school. He became a fixture there and somehow […]

I think I’ve used some of these phrases he mentions. I guess I must be “ultra spiritual!” (One of the funniest YouTube videos I’ve seen.  Sit back and have a good laugh!) -Alison

SOMETIMES …you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or […]

Hello readers, I am back from my blogging sabbatical. I appreciated and enjoyed the emails from some of you during my absence (particularly one concerned email asking if I’d died. That one gave me a chuckle!). Nope, I’m still around, with no good excuse for dropping out of sight other than having an extremely busy […]

Healing from divorce is a long process.  Everyone eventually recovers and finds happiness, but the first year or two is more about grief than new life.  I wish it could be different, but that’s just the way it is for most people. Personally I’ve experienced grief twice in my life, and both times it felt […]