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Getting It Together Old School

Posted on January 13, 2010February 28, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Elizabeth Gilbert I am not. Envy about her best-seller status aside, there are other reasons to dwell on her this morning just as the sun is about to rise. Let’s start there. The sun is about to rise and I’m *not* consumed with angst. Breakfast with angst, for far too long, was part of my  regular…

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Oh, The Places We’ll Go!

Posted on January 6, 2010August 14, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

The New Year is still all fresh and pregnant with anticipation. (Oh, but it feels good to use that word in a way that evokes new life of a different kind…) Here I sit (imagine me in this chair here) with a glass of wine and scrumptious salmon cakes while Mr. T is off in…

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The Power of Choice

Posted on January 2, 2010February 16, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Our first guest post of the New Year comes from Dr. Bad Ass, a Wyoming-based professor who is a long-distance hiker, a secret Harry Potter fanatic, and “mother” to one (aged) cat and one (young) dog. She includes in her email signature this Eleanor Roosevelt quote: “You gain strength, courage, and confidence, by every experience…

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New Beginnings, New Adventures

Posted on December 30, 2009February 3, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Welcome. Get comfortable. Take a look around. The first order of business: a name for this blog. Where Coming2Terms became an online refuge following failed fertility treatments and related losses (and a place to manage a complex transition from one sort of life to another), this blog will explore new beginnings. It seemed only natural to…

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