Trish
My Philosophy About Food & Cooking
I’m into good food. Food that tastes good and haunts my dreams. Mostly I stick to minimally processed stuff, but only most of the time....
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- Apr 24, 2020
- 2 min
Tip for Grievers #29
Pleasure and pain can coexist. You have to get used to it. I was lucky enough today to do a guided meditation with my friend, body work...
Trish
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
Tip for Grievers #28
At this crazy-ass time, when the world seems to be falling apart, don't forget that you already have first-hand experience of what this...
Trish
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #27
If you are taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medication, don't forget to take them! Sometimes you fall off a cliff. And then do it...
Trish
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #26
Fall in love with yourself. It's been over a year now since Tom died and I've learned one really significant thing. I have begun to learn...
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- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #25 - Addendum
Today my friend Mary Bernal sent me a link to a beautiful letter that Albert Einstein wrote his daughter Lieseri. I'm including a link...
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- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #25
It's the counter-intuitive advice for the new year: Simplify your goals. Or, better yet, dump them. In the throes of grief, you just put...
Trish
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #24
Find your grief legs. One day in grief may or may not look like the last...or the next. Just when I was patting myself on the head. "Good...
Trish
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Tip for Grivers #23
Your normal will never be normal again. That's an uh-duh, I know, but it hides an opportunity. Yes, I'll have a new normal. Whether I...
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- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
Tip for Grievers #22
Anniversaries just suck. No other way to say it. The birthdays, holidays, and special days just the two of you shared are flat-out...
Trish
- Mar 22, 2020
- 4 min
Circular Thoughts
I've been thinking a lot about circulariy lately. Lots of time to think, since I've spent well over a month now, either on leave from...
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- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
Ribs to Die For
Oh my gosh goodness, great balls of fire. I have just had an exquisite, I do say exquisite meal. At the fashionable hour of midnight,...
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- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Bubbles in a Pond
Imagine that you have just dived into a shallow clear pond. The water is so crystalline that you can sit at the bottom of the pond and...
Trish
- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #21
I may have said it before, but I am going to say it again: Get your movement on. I just got back from an Open Floor Dance night....
Trish
- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #20
Gather by the hearth of your comfort shows. I've spent an incredible amount of time this past 10 months watching Jeeves and Wooster,...
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- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Stretching Toward Authenticity
On January 27, 2019, my husband died suddenly, in my arms, on the lawn under the redwoods outside of our apartment. It totally sideswiped...
Trish
- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #19
(As much a tip for friends of grievers.) Is it only me who thinks a fabulous gift to bring to someone grieving is several boxes of...
Trish
- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Tip for Grievers #18
If you don't regularly get your home professionally cleaned, do it. Get a thorough cleaning. Go ahead and rearrange things the way you...
Trish
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
Spring Snow Storm
The photo that accompanies this post was a holiday card we sent a few years ago. I love this picture a lot and it has served as a focal...
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