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Where do you call home? – Why we love our biggest little city

January 9, 2019 megansularix

Moving! Do you love it or does it terrify you? And I don’t mean the process of packing your crap and schlepping it to a new destination. NO ONE loves that. No one wakes up and says, “My, I would really love to spend eternity surrounded by paper and bubble wrap, only to finish a room and then open that ONE drawer that makes you curse and stamp your feet at the universe for ever creating a junk drawer! The…

Which way is right? – Grieving for someone you lost long ago.

November 13, 2018 megansularix

Everyone has their own way of grieving. Nothing is normal. Nothing is out of the ordinary. Sometimes you follow the stages of grief. Sometimes you stuff it all down and walk around aimlessly. This past August, my father passed away. It’s something we had been expecting for a while, but that “expectant mindset” didn’t lessen the shock. The night we got the call, I sat and listened to my husband on the phone in the other room. And I just…