Relationships are challenging. Any relationship. The challenges increase when one partner is suddenly, or gradually over time due to a debilitating illness, living with...
A Toast
Here’s to Aloneness and her second cousin, Loneliness.
May we continue to especially savour and enjoy the former.
Without being absorbed by the latter.
I wrote...
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