About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Tag Archives: mourning
Feb
15
2012
An Open Letter To My Mother
I wrote the following post on the 6th anniversary of my mother’s death. Now, it’s more than 6 years later, tonight being the 13th anniversary of when her tumour was found. I’ve been meaning to post this writing here for years, but dragging it up is, well, heavy. Tonight, I’m more bothered by loss than I have [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me Also tagged death, grief, remembering, when mothers die Leave a comment
Aug
12
2010
A Stitch in Time
I sold a sewing machine last night, for far less than I’d wanted to, and found myself ever so emotional after the fact. I remember the day my mother bought that 1917 Singer (Model 027) oak-cabinet sewing machine, some 30 years ago. We’d had a yard sale, with my parents constantly on their “reduce the clutter [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, keeping it real, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Specifically Steff Also tagged changing life, dead mother, death, epiphanies, gaining wisdom, getting wiser, grief, growing up, life, middle ages, parents 6 Comments
Aug
06
2006
Stumbling Through Sunday
Do you ever have those days when something hits you and you begin to think that, this day, for whatever reason, will come to be an important one in some grand scheme of things? I’m having one of those days. I feel like it’s a day on which my mindset’s going to shift in a [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Journalling, Specifically Steff, writing Also tagged analyzing life, anniversaries, dead mom, dead mother, grief, Journalling, looking at your life, memorializing, memories, moving on, pondering, remembering, sadness, taking a moment, taking stock, thinking, thinking it out 1 Comment
Memories of the Peripheral Dead