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An Invitation to Join Me: NaBloPoMo13

Nov 1, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

If you have been kind enough to subscribe to my musings every time I click, PUBLISH, thank you! Now I feel it’s only fair that I should warn you: During […]

Filed Under: All things Writing, Living, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Friendship, NaBloPoMo13, Writing

The Crashed Computer, an unexpected reminder

Oct 21, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

By and large we are not technically savvy people, so I was skeptical when Jimmy announced we were going to retrieve lost information from off of the hard drives of […]

Filed Under: On being a parent Tagged With: computer crash, hard drive recovery, Parenting, pictures

The Gift: A short story in parenting

Oct 2, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 9 Comments

When my son Max was four he went to pre-school at a small private school in Boulder, Colorado, the school was nestled in the outskirts of town with a playground […]

Filed Under: On being a parent Tagged With: Kindness, Parenting, Patience

Buoy Us

Sep 11, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Buoy us  Body, mind, soul swallowed into the abyss the wall fingertips brush against yet not  quite… splash into the memory-well so deep oxygen eludes —no tick—no tock— reservoir of […]

Filed Under: All things Writing Tagged With: 9/11, Healing

Backseat of a forward moving car

Jul 2, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 8 Comments

  Zipping past me in a blur of color is Rancho Santa Fe, if one were to slow the car–and time–you would see beauty abounds. There by the roadside a […]

Filed Under: On being a parent Tagged With: coming of age, driving, Motherhood, Teenagers

Shepherding death; letting go of my mother

Jun 20, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 31 Comments

  It was the sort of awakening that occurs when a phone’s ring interrupts a deep sleep–the kind that if needed, propels one into motion, only there was no phone […]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: Daughter, Death of Mother, Grief, Loss of Parent, Mother

Birthday Wish

May 10, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

  When I was little every time we drove by a hay truck I would make a wish, eyes closed tight, breath held, words uttered to myself almost as if […]

Filed Under: Aging Tagged With: 5oth Birthday, Intention, Self-Love

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