From Heartbreak to A New Home, Art, and Love: My 12-Year Writing Journey

Healing Through Writing: Celebrating 50K Blog Views I started writing, while I was going through my divorce, back in December 2014. All due to the advise from my sister, who said “You should write a journal or a blog”. I replied “I don’t know how to do that” With in an hour after we talked, […]

A Year in Review: Celebrating Milestones and Memories

Another year for the books. I look back at this year and I realize how busy I was. Even though we are sadly still in this dreaded pandemic, I am surprised at how much I managed to accomplish! The good things; The bad things; Sadly, I lost 2 uncles and an aunt this year. They […]

Doggy Guests 48, Remy and Rafi

I am going to miss these adorable boys! It was Remy and Rafi’s first time at Lynne’s Doggy BnB. They were here for 8 days. And let me also mention, that it is so great to have dogs here again. I lost most of my booked clients in 2020, due to the pandemic. But, even […]

Coping with Loss: Remembering Loved Ones

A couple of weeks ago, one of my aunts went to heaven and this week, a very dear friend did too. Too much loss and sadness all at once. I have lost a lot of people in my life. It is never easy. My aunt was 88 and lived a good and long life. The […]

Coping with Life’s Curveballs: Finding Strength

Life can really throw us some curve balls. We are all given challenges in life and it’s how we choose to deal with them that allows us to get through each day. A week ago, a very dear friend of mine was in a motor cycle accident and fortunately lived. His passenger tragically passed away from the accident. I […]

Finding New Beginnings After Grief and Heartbreak

When my nephew passed 3 weeks ago, I really struggled with the decision to let my soon-to-be-ex know the tragic news. He and my nephew had a pretty close relationship. My ex and I have not spoken since he left me last May, except through lawyers. I have no way to reach him so I […]

Reflections on Time: Healing After Loss

Time is powerful. It helps to heal, when you are in physical pain or sad or in mourning of a loss. Sometimes it seems to go slowly, when you are excited and waiting for something. Sometimes it goes fast, like when you look back at the last year and say “where did the time go?” […]

Coping with Loss: Healing After Tragedy

So much going on…from the recent tragedy, my nephews death, R.I.P J, to my divorce proceedings. The healing process has begun. It’s not goodbye, it’s see you down the road. Such a young man to leave us so soon. Thank you for all of your kinds words of support. Please do NOT drink and drive. […]

Losing my nephew in a tragic accident

I have experienced a lot of loss and sadness in my life and this past weekend, my family was hit again. One of my nephews, only 20 years old, died due to a car accident 2 days ago. Such a tragedy. He had an argument with his girlfriend and got in his car to come […]