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Ginny Bartolone's Blog of Many Years

Tag: life

  • Day 7: The First Time I Said I Would Marry Ben

    For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now.  To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post.   Also, this 30 Day challenge is also to support a wonderful charity, Zara Aina.  Please check out my fundraiser here and if…

  • Day 6! A Short Camino Story by the Fire

    For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now.  To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post.  Today’s theme is, “Enough is enough.”  Whatever that means to you, feel free to comment, link your blog, or repost…

  • Thank You’s for Days 4 and 5!

    Fundraiser update! (daily story to come later, even if it’s short and sweet) For those of you just tuning in, I am raising money for the beautiful arts organization, Zara Aina.  I will turn 30 on October 27th, and hope to raise $900 ($30 for $30 days).  And we are on track!! Here are two more…

  • Day 1: Don’t Rain on My Parade, or…That Time I Almost Didn’t Go to the Tony’s

    For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now.  To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post.  Today’s theme is, “Don’t Rain on My Parade!”  Whatever that means to you, feel free to comment, link…

  • How Diane Lane Narrating My Life Became This Blog

    Little Thoughts on Finding Your Writing Voice I’ve been in career mode recently.  I love when my brain lets me go there.  I have these occasional waves of motivation, usually timed with the changing of the seasons.  Fall is a big one for me.  I want to fill my house with pumpkin smells, wrap up…

  • Two parks, three trees, and a mighty fine popsicle

    Two parks, three trees, and a mighty fine popsicle

    As I get older, I am constantly reminded that a day can take unexpected turns when you let it.  I began today with an overly structured plan to make it past the morning surprise that I awoke feeling like had spent the night rolling down a rocky, jaggedy hill–a reminder that either my mysterious illness still lingered or that I…

  • Public Journal in Peterborough

    Today is the first day in months, many months, when I find myself sitting in a town where I’ve never been, with nothing to do and no one to see.  I didn’t have to plan anyone’s hotel, their car, the food.  I could head up to our rental house right now and lay on the…

  • New Camino Post on xoJane

    Good Morning!!  If you check out my post from yesterday, I was in a hell of a slump.  But an article I wrote for xoJane was published last evening, and so far seems to be going over pretty well!  It was definitely the boost I needed after a poopy day. If you are just finding…

  • Anatomy of a Weird Day

    This is going to be a bit of a weird post for me.  Then again, yesterday was a pretty weird day.  And I can’t really put my finger on why.  Nothing wild happened.  It was just odd–as in, something significant, however small, happened in each step of the afternoon.  So I’m going to write about it.…

  • For My Grandma, 1925-2014

    Today marks the two-year anniversary of losing my grandmother on my mom’s side, Doris Clifford.  I got the call after making it to the end of a hellish week, barely by the skin of my teeth.  I was helping plan a massive gala in NYC and nearly collapsed by the end of the evening.  We…