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One year, eight months, 16 days

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I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...

Dear Tim; who were you, even?

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CW: grief, confusion, anger, you know, all that stuff that comes with death of a spouse and being a widow. Dear Tim; Sometimes I wonder......

What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business

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In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite...

This Week in Vacation Planning (10/22/23)

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At this point the dates for my vacation next year have changed so many times, I've started not even telling my friends with whom I...
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Where the Magic Happens

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In March, I went to Walt Disney World for the first time since Tim died. The first time since Heath died. I'd been to Disney...
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Navel Gazing

Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion

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Google has P A G E S of hits when you search for grief and exhaustion. I know this because every couple of months I...
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Navel Gazing

What is today?

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No, really. What day of the week is it? Because I've been convinced all day that it was Sunday. Even though I watched TV with...
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My Random Life

More catching up

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About exactly one year ago, minus about four hours as I'm writing this, I got that phone call. Everything I think I want to say...
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Monday Musings Navel Gazing

What are you willing to tolerate?

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Like a journal, these posts are a place for me to be more honest about what was happening than I was on Facebook, or Caring...
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Souvenirs

Why am I writing all this stuff about Tim, anyway?

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If y'all haven't already been asking yourselves why it is exactly that I'm rehashing all of this, why I'm rewriting it, tomorrow's post will really...
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My Random Life

Welcome back?

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Nothing quite showed me that I missed my little blog here like almost losing my little blog. A year ago - wait, more than a...
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Navel Gazing

Smart Goals

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I told someone I was thinking of listing out the things I wanted to make sure I get done in 2020, and they were like,...
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Navel Gazing

Begin as you mean to go on

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I have a friend who says "begin as you mean to go on" at the beginning of the year; in other words, start January 1st...
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My Random Life

When you’re ready we can share the wine (call me)

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Recently I was talking to a friend about social media and how I present myself - a topic that I actually talk to a LOT...
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Monday Musings

Lessons Learned

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I've had a lot of time to think in the ten days or so, while laid up (well, when I wasn't napping, which I swear...
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Monday Musings

I’d bet my right kidney on tha—- oh, wait. :: awkward silence ::

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Oh. Mah. Garsh, y’all. THIS STORY. I debated posting this here, because while I don't want o get into the realm of boring/TMI, as a...
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haldecraft

Maker of thrown, hand-built, and slipcast ceramics; dyer and spinner of yarn; writer of science fiction; watcher of people and nature.

Lorena Haldeman
I was hoping to have a shop update tonight but I'm I was hoping to have a shop update tonight but I'm still working on getting everything that's new to the shop, photographed. In spite of what this picture looks like, haha! I really am working hard. Hopefully the update will come tomorrow evening, but if not, Thursday at the latest. Thanks, y'all!
Just what the houseplant-loving, camper-life-livin Just what the houseplant-loving, camper-life-living, gift-recipient needs!
It's a two-supervisor day! It's a two-supervisor day!
You don't have to worry about blowing all the seed You don't have to worry about blowing all the seeds off the dandelion on this mug in one breath, in order to find out if you're loved, or make your wish come true. Your only wish for this mug should be that you get a delicious hot beverage!
Meet "The Bayport House" - a dollhouse my mother b Meet "The Bayport House" - a dollhouse my mother built for me when I was but a wee lass, a model of a house I lived in when I was even younger. She's been through some stuff, let me tell you. Poor choice renovations, about a dozen moves, storage, sitting around collecting dust, years of me staring at it wondering how I'd redecorate if I had the time... and now, me deciding to go ahead and MAKE the time. I actually started on this five or six weeks ago but wanted to check with y'all to see if you even wanted to hear about miniatures before I started posting. I asked, and you answered with a resounding YES! So I'll be posting a couple of photos a week showing her off as I fix her up!
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