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Grief ~ How Long Does It Last?

I am grieving.  Every morning I wake up to the knowledge that my husband is not beside me.  All through the day I work from home, alone, on the creations from the Memory Quilts business I have started, and...

12 comments    death grief dragon
Rockport's inner harbor and Motif #178

Rockport, Massachusetts ~ A Beautiful Place and Why I Could Never Live There Again

i love Rockport, Massachusetts. i always have, even before i lived there. after i married my Marine, we moved out there to get away from everything and everyone. my children were grown and out on their own...

11 comments    travel poetry memories
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No Sewing Machine? Hand Sew a Memory Quilt

I love to sew.  It is relaxing for me and lately has been a source of comfort.  I haven't had a sewing machine in years now.  I do everything by hand.  I'd like to tell you how easy it is to make a memory...

arts death memories
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Handmade Wedding

My daughter's getting married in September.  We don't have a lot of money to spend on store bought things plus she has eclectic tastes.  Getting things in stores that are exactly right is problematic so I'm...

9 comments    wedding sewing embroidery
on the back burner, my own Husband Quilt is slowly getting done.76

Memory Quilts - Tangible Solace During Grief

on the back burner, my own Husband Quilt is slowly getting done. Several weeks ago I wrote a hub about my Husband Quilt. It became a hubnugget of which I felt very humble, but it turned into something...

15 comments    clothes grief sewing
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Danvers State Insane Asylum Cemetery

I lived in New England for twenty-three years and it was shortly after I moved there that I heard about Danvers.  I had never been interested in the paranormal beyond watching scary movies on occasion so the...

8 comments    religion ghosts legends
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The Ocean Calls to Some

I used to live beside the ocean.  Not a sea, which can be very large, but is partially enclosed by land.  By definition, a sea is part of an ocean.  An ocean has no boundaries and therefore limitless...

8 comments    ocean storms fishermen
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Lighthouses

my Isla womanNshadows. Photo credit: womanNshadows Everyone has one.  They feel their life has become a metaphor that, though they are nothing alike it reality, in the most basic of ways they are the...

10 comments    grief isolation lighthouses
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Dogtown, Gloucester, MA

When you think about eastern Massachusetts, most people instantly think about cities and towns like Boston, the historic Lexington/Concord area, Walden pond, industrial Lowell, and when imagining the areas of...

2 comments    arts dogs history
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The Quaint Architecture of Bearskin Neck, Rockport, MA

Rockport, Massachusetts is a lovely small town that hugs the coastline of an area called Cape Ann. North and east of Boston, it was settled in the 1620’s and took up a little over seventeen square miles of...

0 comments    travel shopping history
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