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Last Day of November

Nov 30, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 4 Comments

Last Day of November

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 Blog Post Month) In reverse order: NaBloPoMo. What a month. I could not have predicted just how much I would love and hate the fact […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: NaBloPoMo13

The Passage of Time

Nov 29, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 22 Comments

The Passage of Time

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 hour glass on its side–pause–keep the moment before me in that frame as it is, not let it end. Tonight at Kodiak’s soccer game was […]

Filed Under: NaBloPoMo13, Parenting Tagged With: High school graduation, NaBloPoMo13, Present moment, Teenagers

Baking and Memory

Nov 28, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Baking and Memory

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 when I flipped the tab marked “breads” to the side. Her long-hand penmanship came into view; involuntarily I sat on the cold tile beneath the […]

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

A Look at Healing

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 like to be new.—Death Cab for Cutie Though it has been said that time heals all wounds, that has not been my experience. However accepting […]

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

Music that Leads to Emotional Lockdown: Twisted Mix-Tape Tuesday

Nov 26, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 20 Comments

Music that Leads to Emotional Lockdown: Twisted Mix-Tape Tuesday

  Super thrilled to take on another week of Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape. This week the theme is: This Song Could Have Sent Me to Jail. Want to join the fun? Great! Create your own and join the Twisted Mix Tape Link-up here. Well the way I see it “JAIL” is a relatively loose […]

Filed Under: Music, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: NaBloPoMo13, twisted mix-tape Tuesday

Nature’s Bounty

Nov 25, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 7 Comments

Nature’s Bounty

The Promise of a New Day.                 The way the air smells after the rain.  .                Nature’s dance: Murmuration.  

Filed Under: Living, NaBloPoMo13, Nature Tagged With: Grateful, NaBloPoMo13, nature

Reframing Memory: Thoughts on being a Granparent

Nov 24, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 2 Comments

Reframing Memory: Thoughts on being a Granparent

It was a rainy autumn day—leaves stuck to the road, windshield wipers kept time to the soft fluttering beat of my heart. What had been a conversation between my mother and me had ended. After the words hung between us as if strung out on a clothesline. “Do not ever expect me to be the […]

Filed Under: Memories, NaBloPoMo13 Tagged With: Grandparents, Memory, NaBloPoMo13

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