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To Live Deeply, You Need to Be a Cardinal

April 17, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ Leave a comment

"It’s safer to be a grackle, yes, but if I truly want to live in the fullness of all that life throws at me, I know I need to be a cardinal."

Goodbye, Dad

April 8, 2021November 30, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 16 Comments

I read the letters, but not the ramblings because, you know, I'd have plenty of time before our next Zoom call to do that. Then he up and died, just like that, on Monday night.

Headstone(d) (and looking for advice)

March 17, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 5 Comments

When I was nineteen and he was twenty four and we had a several-thousand-dollar hospital bill to pay because we’d just had a baby, he died. After paying thousands of dollars for an expensive casket because my mother-in-law didn’t want her son’s body eaten by bugs, ever (perfectly preserved forever, which isn’t how nature works), … Continue reading Headstone(d) (and looking for advice)

Life In (and on the brink of leaving) the Bubble

March 9, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 4 Comments

March 12, 2020: Jim had minor surgery. In the hospital waiting room, large bottles of hand sanitizer were placed on every table and everyone sat far apart from each other. It was clear we’d all heard of something called coronavirus, especially when I sneezed and the entire room got quiet. “It’s just allergies, I’m sure,” … Continue reading Life In (and on the brink of leaving) the Bubble

The Feeling that Will Never Have an Explanation

March 1, 2021March 18, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 7 Comments

I’m writing this on February 28, 2021, and I hear a train a mile away as the crow flies. When the wind blows a certain way, its whistle is as loud as if that train was passing through the valley that is my backyard. On February 28, 1983, two weeks before my due date, the … Continue reading The Feeling that Will Never Have an Explanation

Why I Love Rebecca Pearson (This Is Us spoiler alert!)

February 18, 2021February 14, 2022 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 1 Comment

I can melt a bowl of ice cream with all the tears I cry when I watch This Is Us. Sad tears, happy tears, a-thousand-other-emotions tears. This Is Us opens cages I locked years ago; cages I didn’t think had keys anymore. Didn’t I move on from ______? Apparently not. Part of why I get … Continue reading Why I Love Rebecca Pearson (This Is Us spoiler alert!)

Play Guitar (oh yeah…)

February 15, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ Leave a comment

After I do what I can with insurance companies and phone companies and assisted living facilities and banks, I turn it all off, and for thirty minutes, I read music, not emails. For thirty minutes, I’m a guitar player.

Hip as a Mustang

February 5, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 2 Comments

Watching Dad drive the Mustang home, cigarette smoke flying out the window, he became a little more hip, a little more Rockford, a little more than just Dad.

Diamonds Aren’t Always a Girl’s Best Friend

January 30, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 5 Comments

"Nut Goodies are Minnesota, same as Old Dutch potato chips, lutefisk, lefse, and pickled pigs feet on Krispy crackers."

Feeling the Feels of 2020

December 31, 2020January 1, 2021 ~ Lynn Haraldson ~ 3 Comments

I sometimes meditate, I sometimes “pray,” but as 2020 progressed, the peaceful breathing and quiet communication with the god-presence wasn't enough to pry open the jammed up emotions that have piled up like dead fish on ice. It must be a 2020 thing because I’m (too) good at feeling the feels in “normal” times. Between … Continue reading Feeling the Feels of 2020

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For more than 25 years, I've been writing about love, change, grief, and (occasionally) politics, trusting that there is more that unites than divides us. When I address weight-ish issues these days, it’s through a different lens than when I wrote my Lynn’s Weigh blog (2005-2015). May it–and my scale–rest in peace. I was 33 and blond when I started my writing career. Now, 58 and gray,  I feel like (with apologies to The Carpenters) I’ve only just begun to live…and write.

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