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1990s Grief Writing

Writer’s Block

Why There Haven’t Been Any New Stories Lately

I am very conscious that I haven’t added a post to this website for a couple of weeks.  This is very unusual.  Since I created the website 19 months ago I’ve contributed every week, and on average about two posts per week.

So What’s Happened?

As I have written previously (for example, HERE), the TrennaMahney.com website serves many purposes.  One of those is to help me in the grieving process. 

Grief … Read the rest ... “Writer’s Block”

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1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020 Gardening Household Tips Menus Recipes Recipes and Household Tips Snippets and Vignettes

Tales From Trenna’s Kitchen

By Greg

This post has a connection to the Menu Diaries series.  If you aren’t familiar with the series, a good place to start would be HERE.
Some of the items and practices I discuss here are mentioned in the series of posts in which I explain some of the mechanisms Trenna used to cope with her Marfan’s Syndrome. That series starts here.

Introduction

As I have explained a few times, meals and their preparation were central to Trenna’s … Read the rest ... “Tales From Trenna’s Kitchen”

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1960s 1970s 1990s 2000s Craig House Kitchen Tapes Travel

Floor 7 1/2

… and Trenna’s Voice, Recording Kitchen Tape No. 8

By Greg, and then Trenna’s own voice

The popular-culturally literate among you will immediately be thinking “Being John Malkovich“.

What’s this got to do with Trenna?

Well….

I have decided that in most cases I’m NOT going to put the original sound recordings on this website – at least for now.

However, I thought I should put up at least one, to provide an idea of what the original … Read the rest ... “Floor 7 1/2”