missmarketing's commentsComments On: EverythingArticles Blogs Journals Photos created by: Everyonemissmarketing "Sticks and Stones..." -- Words CAN Hurt - Blog Entry12 Apr 2006 01:46 PM Of course, you and I share this experience of losing a spouse to a sudden heart attack, so I know exactly how you feel. I work in Marketing Communications for an industrial furnace company and a publisher shared this magazine cover story from February 1945, "What have I done this day for Victory that a Mother's son should die for me tonight?" I think 60 years later our media and our culture has no real respect for how fragile life is, nor the impact of the loss of life. TV, video games, internet entertainment seem to reduce all life as trivial, and disrespect is glorified. I think if any good can come from our current geopolitical situation, it would be that media would recognize that real drama is in the tensions of real life, and not staged reality farces, and many of the problems in our world could be resolved if we had profound respect for the dignity of all humanity. Maybe we are doing that right now in social media, one blog at a time. Have a great day, Fran! What It's Like to be Robbed of "Forever" - Blog Entry03 Apr 2006 01:04 PM I think the greatest lesson I learned from losing my 53 year old husband suddenly is how important it is to live in the moment...How many moments have I taken for granted worrying about what would happen later? Living one day at a time and sometimes, one hour at a time, savoring each moment seems like the most important thing today. I think you can love more that once in your life, that is, after all, how humanity keeps moving forward, we really never run out of love do we? Dating Advice for Single Moms (from "Mars and Venus Starting Over" by John Gray, Ph.D.) - Blog Entry28 Mar 2006 05:57 PM I too am a great John Gray fan-I also recommend M/V in the workplace-I think I will pick it up, but I have to get through Fran's last list! Thank you for the reminder that it's OK today to put my needs first because I often think that I need to "make it up" to my teenage boys for the loss of their father. They don't make me feel that way, I do this to myself. I have to say that in my case it was only been 2 years and only lately I feel like I have anything worth giving again... So Many Roles, Too Little Me - Blog Entry17 Mar 2006 09:52 PM Me three! I particularly struggle with setting my youngest son up to go hunting and fishing - after all, I'm a vegetarian, and in my rural Pennsylvania community that is what nice young men do...I believe it was Margaret Thatcher who defined a good day when there was everything to do, and it got done. Now there was a lady with many roles, just like us;-> Frazzled: A/K/A, a "Normal" Day - Blog Entry02 Mar 2006 02:39 PM Eye yi yi! Were you reading my mail? Not my exact day, but first I was the custodial parent for 10 months, then their father died and I became the single parent for (2) teen human boys & one teen dog and one old dog, and it has been one crazy day after the other. This AM at work, I got the call from the guidance counselor..."Did I know?" Yes, I knew..."What shall we do?" "Well, I have tried this, this & this, then I tried that" "Yes, we know, you're a good parent [whatever that is]" And the beat goes on, one day at a time. I do feel somewhat affirmed to hear that someone else is feeling overwhelmed today! This single parent thing is very, very hard...I just keep telling myself that someday I'll look back and know it was all worth it :-> |
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