When I decided to cut meat from my diet 15 years ago, the hardest to let go of was bacon. Specifically, Trader Joe’s uncured turkey bacon, but really, any kind of bacon. I also turned into a vegetarian snob, shunning any food product that tried to be meat. But a year ago I loosened the … Continue reading The Photo
You only miss the people you love...
"It’s not our job, in any relationship, to change someone’s mind. We don’t live inside their head."
I won’t kid myself thinking I can actually ever not care what people think. I am, after all, Lynn Haraldson: Worrier Extraordinaire.
“Where were the adults?” they asked. “Why did no one take care of you?”
I’ve been pinching myself all week (and not sleeping well) as my book, An Obesity of Grief: A Journey from Traumatic Loss to Undying Love, is now in production mode. Edits are complete, and now we’re deciding on a cover design. Help us decide by clicking on this link: Koehler Books Cover Poll. (I promise … Continue reading Cover Design Poll! (and an excerpt)
Haraldson Christmas Rule Number One: No gift shall be opened until Christmas Eve. No exceptions.
I miss my dad all the time, but especially at Christmas, when I know children would be looking at him, thinking, Is that Santa?
"She is the child my mother couldn’t wait for me to have—the one who is most like me."
I’ll be 59 in a few days, and I can say, without a doubt, that I’ve lived a very different life in 59 years than my grandmother did.
Lynn Haraldson, Author and Writing Mentor 