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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Benny loves Enrique

August 31, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

Living with chronic illness is very difficult psychologically on a person and her family. I’ll write about the many years of Mom’s illness later… it should be written. For now, just understand […]

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Grief, Life with Benny

I blame our mother

August 26, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

I’ll admit right now, my mom and I had a very complicated, psychologically enmeshed and possibly unhealthy relationship. Sometimes this played out in relation to her animals, or more precisely, […]

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Life with Benny

Pay attention

August 26, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

Since I’m thinking and writing about my experiences with grief and burnout, I made a little trip to BookPeople just to see what was new there. The Grief and Grieving shelf […]

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Grief

Facing the impossible

August 25, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

Maybe about 6 weeks after Benny moved in with me, I took him with me to San Antonio to stay with my significant other (“E”) for the weekend. I had […]

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Grief, Life with Benny

A real tale to tell, a real tail to tell it with

August 24, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

          Because Benny has something to say… A poem for today, Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality and […]

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The beginning of burning out

August 23, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

As I mentioned in, Our Story, this blog is not just about mourning the loss of my mom and getting used to living with her (very bad, but very precious) […]

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Burnout, Grief

Denial and distraction, and barking dogs

August 22, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

I’m not an expert on grief and grieving. I’m not really sure I need to be to be able to offer some insights. As uncharted as this territory was for me […]

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Grief, Recovery

Lest you think the barking has subsided over time…

August 21, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

This is thirteen seconds. He did this for more than one hour… straight.

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Life with Benny

Grief and the problem with tenses

August 20, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

I’m having a little trouble choosing the right verb tenses to describe my life with Benny. Sometimes in these pages I will tell you about a specific event from the […]

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Grief, Life with Benny, Recovery

The unbearable loudness of Benny

August 19, 2014by Lesley Ramsey 4 Comments

Benny was my dog brother, and now our mom was gone. So, of course, there was no question that he would come and live with me. No question. I’d heard […]

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Grief, Life with Benny

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