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Why This Isn’t My 40th Anniversary

I miss this girl. Forty years ago she was happy and excited to be married in a couple of days. Optimistic, everything she had ever wanted…

6 min readSep 24, 2021

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Grief Can Be Paralyzing

I knew for weeks it was coming. That day. That night. It was going to be the anniversary, one year since the fateful night my daughter’s…

4 min readMay 3, 2021

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REALIZING YOU NO LONGER LOVE YOUR CHILD

But You Don’t Care

4 min readJan 24, 2021

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ILLUMINATION

What You Will Have To Be Strong Enough to Live With

I never wanted to be Hercules

6 min readMar 11, 2024

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Change Becomes You

Can Congress Do More to Sabotage Our Military?

Maybe, but Senator Tuberville is running neck and neck with them and may accomplish it on his own.

6 min readNov 10, 2023

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ILLUMINATION

The Shame of United Healthcare

And the vultures who profit from other's misfortune

5 min readJun 17, 2023

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The Shame of United Healthcare

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Boomers, Bitches, and Babes

Too Pretty for Your Own Good

How can this keep happening at my age?

6 min readFeb 22, 2023

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The Memoirist

No Love on the Day of Hearts

I dreaded Valentine’s Day every year

4 min readFeb 5, 2023

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Black Bear

What It’s Like When Feelings Elude You

Relief from the escape of negative emotions hardly makes up for the inability to feel happy ones

7 min readJan 23, 2023

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Change Becomes You

Why We Need Demar Hamlin

And what we can learn from the reaction to his injury.

5 min readJan 11, 2023

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Mandy McElroy

Mandy McElroy

Divorced for 2 years, after leaving a 40 year marriage. An adult daughter removed herself and her children from my life due to my decision. The pain remains.

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