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Debra Reynolds

An author and editor residing in northern Pennsylvania.

Latest Posts

  • Update—still so tired

    I’m finally back at the keyboard. I took a few days to go on a (business) trip with someone who dislikes traveling alone. I did take my work with me, but I spent a LOT of time relaxing and reading, which was important. Traveling is exhausting. And we deplaned just in time to see on…

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  • Got a story about a cool device? Here’s your chance!

    https://raconteurpress.substack.com/p/homework-artifact-origins

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  • Book Review: The Carter Files—Phoenix by Lori Janeski

    Book One of Two At 551 pages, this is a BIG book, and the story continues in The Carter Files: Raven. It is absolutely worth the time. A rousing good story, with interesting characters (and good backstories), ratcheting tension marbled with humor and the feel of real life. The love story is also very natural.…

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  • Explaining epilepsy

    Photo by Tara Winstead: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-usb-cable-on-white-and-red-box-7723388/ So, I never thought I’d be here—where my son’s caregivers have never actually seen a seizure, and need some information to proceed. I never thought I’d be able to say that the seizures are so far apart—2 to 3 per year! and very short!—that people who work with him daily…

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    GREAT POST OF HOPE

    I just have to share this, from the incomparable Cedar Sanderson. https://cedarlila.substack.com/p/lift-your-eyes-up

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  • Clearing skies

    Photo by Brett Sayles: https://www.pexels.com/photo/clouds-1431822/ I feel like the skies are clearing a bit. Of course, I still grieve, I have times when it’s painful and I’m down. That won’t stop—I’ve lost those dear to me before, and I know how it goes. But the frantic busyness and worry of the past year(s) has lightened.…

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  • Frustration makes grief worse

    photo by Pixabay After a death, there is a LOT of paperwork to contend with, and it takes months and possibly years to settle an estate. I expected that. I had not expected so many roadblocks to be thrown up in our way. For instance, the medical bills which are outstanding cannot be handled—the account…

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  • Exhaustion

    Photo by Kulbir: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-a-weathered-sunflower-in-a-glass-vase-9707959/ We all talk about being tired—I think the American way of life is tired. Busy, busy. But this is not that discussion. Today, I’m too tired to FEEL anything. Everything is blurred, like being touched through a thick blanket. Grief sure is strange—I’m not sure I could muster a tear. (No,…

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  • Waking Up Happy

    It seems so wrong, sometimes, to wake up happy. Of course, I have been through this before, so I know that’s how it works. And all the pop-psych stuff out there says chirpy things like, “Life must go on!” and “Find joy in spite of grief!” We know that as humans, our emotions are complex…

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