tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179493572011-10-03T03:41:04.166-07:00Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-72102802719575441172011-07-18T05:16:00.000-07:002011-07-18T05:16:03.120-07:00

Goodreads | Quote by Dr. Seuss: "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fant..."

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-30343823706356639582011-07-17T08:00:00.001-07:002011-07-17T08:05:58.684-07:00

I am missing everything today...Martin, my mother, Michael, my job, my apartment, my car, solitude, peace, being surrounded by what I love, the ability to come and go as I please, freedom, my own bed, feeling connected to the place I am, familiarity, an anchor, a feeling of order, knowing where I belong...

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-28296823415049980922011-01-05T18:01:00.000-08:002011-01-05T18:01:04.375-08:00

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-55659574275858214102010-11-21T17:07:00.000-08:002010-11-21T17:07:40.666-08:00

Passages to the Past: Author Guest Post + Giveaway: Terence Hawkins, au...: "Passages to the Past is pleased to bring you a guest post written by Terence Hawkins, author of The Rage of Achilles.  And don't forget to c..."

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-55874451830909697622010-11-21T16:44:00.000-08:002010-11-21T16:44:34.186-08:00

Passages to the Past: $100 CSN Gift Card Giveaway!!!: "The kind people at CSN has given Passages to the Past another $100 Gift Card to give away to one of my lucky followers! You have probably he..."

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-58213796284427582282010-09-05T22:49:00.000-07:002010-09-05T23:54:58.931-07:00

To honor the release of The Countess and the King by Susan Holloway King, Passages to the Past has Susan's entire bibliography (FIVE books total) up for grabs. Click on the Passages to the Past link to see how to enter to win. The giveaway ends on September 13th. Good luck!

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-556372033073427842010-04-27T20:17:00.001-07:002010-04-27T20:17:38.181-07:00

"Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-7653385690518768702010-04-18T18:24:00.000-07:002010-04-18T18:25:04.184-07:00

“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure."~ Henri Nouwen

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-124992410386972962010-04-18T15:48:00.000-07:002010-04-18T15:51:14.034-07:00

An Open Letter About ALS | The New York Review of BooksThis is the disease that took my husband's life. I can only hope that someday there will be a cure for this horrific disease.

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-14423062216809116292010-04-17T01:39:00.000-07:002010-04-17T01:40:35.508-07:00

WORD FOR THE DAYFrom: Gratefulness.orgIt may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.Wendell BerryCollected Poems

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-89815157811020053852010-04-13T13:04:00.000-07:002010-04-13T13:16:43.137-07:00

...but it doesn't mean you can stay there forever. I took a trip back east last week. I spent two days in New York City with someone who means far too much to me and then flew to Syracuse where I had close to three days to catch up with as many people as I could. All this was brought about by a birthday dinner that I had always been a part of and which I wanted to still be a part of. I told

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-77523647479268611122010-01-16T18:16:00.002-08:002010-01-31T16:15:05.596-08:00

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. ~Herb Caen This is not what I want to do but so often I find myself doing exactly that. I suppose I should be grateful that it is not like this all of the time.

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-38750580033874405102009-10-27T15:25:00.003-07:002009-10-27T15:40:09.656-07:00

Today is the anniversary of one of the most painful, sorrowful, and heartbreaking events of my life. It is not an anniversary to be celebrated but an anniversary for remembering the single most important person in my life, the one who when he went away left a void that can never be filled, an ache that will never go away, a sadness that even in my happy moments is hidden away in my heart, ready

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-2674286679754266742009-10-25T16:41:00.002-07:002009-10-25T17:10:12.669-07:00

I just now finished eating my dinner - a pasta bowl from Wegmans with bowtie pasta and sliced chicken - accompanied by a bottle of Sam Adams that had been poured into my Pike Brewing Company glass that I bought back in July while having dinner in the restaurant in Seattle, with Phil and Amanda- and reading the current issue of Artful Blogging and being enchanted by the story of Dottie Angel.I

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-91839554657658460582009-10-03T15:44:00.005-07:002009-10-03T16:11:30.110-07:00

Maybe this is the right time to start posting to this blog. Major changes to my life - and isn't that what has been happening for the last two years? - with a move across the country to the Pacific Northwest - the city of Seattle - to start a whole new life. Exciting and frightening, all at the same time. So much to do to get there. It all makes me dizzy!Since losing Martin, and then my mother,

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-43235347300997176522009-03-31T02:18:00.000-07:002009-03-31T02:19:44.960-07:00

Tuesday, Mar. 31To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner www.gratefulnes.org

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-30239686394530982282009-03-08T08:34:00.003-07:002009-03-08T08:50:44.083-07:00

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17949357.post-13597620903318461792008-11-30T14:02:00.002-08:002008-11-30T14:09:28.954-08:00

I should be arriving sometime in January though there is no definite date yet...I like to leave my options open.

Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01287535196837698394noreply@blogger.com1