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  • in sickness and in health

    Posted by elisabethel on November 4, 2017

    I’m going today to have lunch with a group of friends who have connections to the department where I work; most of them used to work there with me. This is the first time that …

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  • anxiously conferencing

    Posted by elisabethel on October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

    I’m just back from a few days on the East Coast where I feel like I was posing as someone who knew what they were doing at a large committee meeting. I reassured myself in …

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  • chuckling darkly

    Posted by elisabethel on October 25, 2017March 22, 2019

    I first heard a long time ago that it’s good for us to laugh. Laughter does not always come easily to me; I think that’s why I love my sons so much. They are two …

    in relationship
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  • art with mental illness

    Posted by elisabethel on October 23, 2017October 23, 2017

    I’ve been thinking all day about Vincent Van Gogh and his brother, Theo. Vincent painted such beautiful pictures, and I love his repetitions, the sequences of paintings where he painted the same subject or something …

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  • revision 1

    Posted by elisabethel on October 21, 2017March 17, 2019

    I know that I’m supposed to be writing more upbeat material here; I’m looking around at what people are posting, and even when it’s about mental illness, it’s still pretty perky.  But the tone that’s …

    writing
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  • on plagues and locusts

    Posted by elisabethel on October 20, 2017March 17, 2019

    I’ve been going to an unprogrammed Quaker meeting for more than twenty years now. I like sitting in the silence in a group of others, waiting. Many Quakers are as Christian now as when Quakerism …

    spirituality
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  • pills in fires and floods

    Posted by elisabethel on October 18, 2017March 17, 2019

      After several weeks of hearing about one disaster after another – the hurricanes in Texas and Puerto Rico and Florida – and now waking for a week and a half to skies full of …

    parenting
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  • About

    Posted by elisabethel on October 17, 2017

    I’ve  wanted to write a novel since I was eight years old, when I made my first attempt at writing one by penning thirty hand-written pages (with illustrations) about a boy who found meaning when …

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  • Something Novel

    Posted by elisabethel on September 2, 2017March 17, 2019

      I’ve spent the last two years intensely focused on writing a novel about a family coping with mental illness.  This is a topic that I know about intimately both from the family situation I …

    writing
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