Linda C Wisniewski's Blog

• Happy Halloween Birthday - Boo!

  October 28, 2009

  • The cards have started appearing in my mailbox. My birthday is very close to Halloween. Sometimes, people send me the ones colored orange and black with cats and witches on the front. They read Happy Halloween Birthday! The thing is, Halloween was my mother's birthday. People still get them confused - wasn't I born on Halloween? Nope. But that's okay. Close enough. My husband was born on ...
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• Forgiveness is not what you do

  September 16, 2009

  • It took a lot of years and a lot of livin' before I realized that forgiveness isn't something you do. Forgiveness is all about what you don't do. You don't wake up and replay the argument when they hurt you, practicing better retorts. You don't think of what they did and said years ago to wound you, while you take a morning shower today. You don't remember, over breakfast, that you were abused ...
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