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A Memorial Day Love Story

May 24, 2015 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

Because my mother is no longer alive to ask, I try to imagine the emotions that would have been swirling through her mind as she entered Penn Station on an […]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: Love Story, Memorial Day, WASP, WWII

4 Ways to Shift Internal Chatter

Dec 6, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 15 Comments

I have found 4 ways to shift what I think of as “my internal chatter,” for the better. In keeping with the theme of “joy” in this month’s NaBloPoMo challenge, I thought […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo Dec 14 Tagged With: goals, Internal Chatter, Little Voice, NaBloPoMo Dec 14, Powerful Thinking

Halloween is Over

Nov 1, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 28 Comments

Halloween is over, it’s over in the literal sense because it’s November 1st and it’s also over in the metaphorical sense because my three kids are all well past the […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo Nov 14, On being a parent Tagged With: Halloween, Parenting, Time

My Happy Place, Wordless Wednesday

Oct 15, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Inspired by my friend Lois who wrote about her Happy Place a couple of days ago I decided to do the same, only not through words. In celebration of “wordless Wednesday” […]

Filed Under: For the Love of Nature

Home

Oct 10, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 13 Comments

When I think of home–I don’t think as much about place–as I do about feel. What does being at home in my mind feel like? For me it boils down […]

Filed Under: Memories Tagged With: childhood, Home, Love, memories, Safety

The Everyday Last Day

Oct 8, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 20 Comments

What would it really be like to live as if every single day were your last. Every. Single. Day. In short, the everyday last day. When I left the house […]

Filed Under: Aging Tagged With: Death, Life, Living, Present moment, Right to Die

The Sort of Grandmother

Oct 3, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 32 Comments

  My minds hand tugs at the line between now and then, one hand feeds the other and I watch as the past moves into view. It was a rainy autumn day. Even now […]

Filed Under: Memories Tagged With: memories, Mother daughter relationship, On being a Granparent

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