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Attitude: Perspective Day 16

Feb 16, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 8 Comments

Noelle Pikus-Pace. Wow. Just wow. In the note she wrote to herself that read: “This is it. Don’t get scared now.” followed by a smiley face, Noelle Pikus-Pace set the […]

Filed Under: Healing from Trauma, Marriage, Memories Tagged With: Grief, Healing, Love, Noelle Pikus-Place, Olympics

The Blog: Perspective Day 12

Feb 12, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal Leave a Comment

As if it were yesterday, I remember launching my first website. It went “live” and then everything that was wrong with the copy became obvious. Glaring typos. Run-on sentences. Tense […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons Tagged With: blogging lessons, Women, Writing

The Re-Write

Jan 31, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway Bleeding about sums it up, although in my case, it was […]

Filed Under: All things Writing Tagged With: Memoir, Publishing a Book, Re-write, Tornado Warning-Memoir, Writers, Writing

Last Day of November

Nov 30, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

November 30th has arrived and that means three things: November will be over very soon. College Applications for UC’s are due at midnight. It’s the last day of NaBloPoMo (National […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: NaBloPoMo13

The Passage of Time

Nov 29, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 22 Comments

Tonight as the night began to draw her curtain against the sun I couldn’t help but think how fast the years have slipped past. Sometimes I want to set the […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, On being a parent Tagged With: High school graduation, NaBloPoMo13, Present moment, Teenagers

Baking and Memory

Nov 28, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Crouched down I retrieved the binder which is beyond bursting with recipes—some clipped from newspaper, some from magazines, while others were passed on. I knew what I was looking for […]

Filed Under: Grief, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: cooking, Death, Grandma, Grief, sweet rolls, Tradition

A Look at Healing

Nov 27, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

I want to live where soul meets body and let the sun wrap its arms around me, and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, and feel what it’s […]

Filed Under: Life Lessons, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Healing, life lessons, nablopomo, Self-Love, self-talk

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