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A Memorial Day Love Story

May 24, 2015 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

A Memorial Day Love Story

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 unknown day in early January of 1944—fear, excitement—surely she must have experienced both. It was cold then, temperatures hovered around 27 degrees—and although I don’t […]

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

4 Ways to Shift Internal Chatter

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 months NaBloPoMo challenge, I thought I would share them with you today. Because sharing stuff that works brings me joy. We all have it — that little voice inside our head — […]

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

Home is My Church

Dec 3, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 25 Comments

Home is My Church

Reflection: something that shows the effect, existence, or character of something else.”–Merriam Webster Dictionary By the time I was born my family had all but given up church. My memories of going are more like snapshots, the first of which is of leaving. It was winter in Connecticut, I was probably three years old. All […]

Filed Under: Memories, NaBloPoMo Dec 14 Tagged With: Christmas, church, Family, Home, Love, memories

Getting Clean

Nov 13, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 22 Comments

Getting Clean

What does “getting clean” mean to you? It could be as difficult as speaking a truth that has been hard to share or as complex as shaking yourself free from addiction. Regardless of what we are faced with, sometimes “getting clean,” is harder than it appears. Seven weeks ago my friend and fellow writer, Mary, announced to her Facebook friends that […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Life Cleanse, NaBloPoMo Nov 14 Tagged With: Eat clean, exercise, Forgiveness, PiYo, voice inside your head

Halloween is Over

Nov 1, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 28 Comments

Halloween is Over

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 ages where their costumes made my heart sing. We could hear them as they approached last night. Little feet slapped the sidewalk as if the […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo Nov 14, Parenting Tagged With: Halloween, Parenting, Time

My Happy Place, Wordless Wednesday

Oct 15, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

My Happy Place, Wordless Wednesday

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” I offer up a series of photographs to show you My Happy Place.

Filed Under: Nature

Home

Oct 10, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 13 Comments

Home

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 to two things, safety and love. Even though I have had times in my life where I was not at home with myself, or safe, […]

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

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