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The Crash | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. January 11, 2015. So, I left the computer in the shop for organ replacement, along with the nifty little external backup drive, which I had remembered to bring with me. After the new hard drive was in, the folks at Apple would reinstall the software and files from the backup, and I would be up and running again. They said they’d call within forty-eight hours. So, went back to this bustling mall on the Sunday before Christmas to pick up a repaired computer with nothing on it.
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Memoir | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. RSS feed for this section. November 17, 2014. At the end of an hour-long memoir coaching session, a woman seeking help to tell her unique personal story asked if she could record our next conversation. There were pearls in this, she said. I didn’t get them all. I told her I would record them in this blog and send her a link. There is some basic guidance I’ve discovered in […]. Continue Reading →. September 16, 2014. Continue Reading →. September 2, 2014. Continue Reading →.
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Five Reasons to Write Memoir | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. Five Reasons to Write Memoir. November 30, 2014. Memoir has been maligned as navel-gazing, faux fiction, self-aggrandizement, an exercise in. The criticism is spurious. If you’re not interested in a story, don’t read it but if that story happened to you, if it’s lodged in your memory, then there are at least five good reasons for you to write it down. You have a unique perspective. Your stories can disappear. You can’t. But you. Write about what you. There is more to glean.
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An Ounce of Prevention | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. An Ounce of Prevention. July 26, 2015. I was on my way to pick strawberries, driving down a country road when it happened. About a quarter of a mile ahead, I saw a fawn step onto the blacktop. I slowed down. The fawn saw the car, turned, and began running straight toward us. I stopped, but the truck behind me didn’t or, anyway, not as soon as I stopped. The next day, when the claims adjustor from Dad’s insurance company called, he said, I’m sorry this ruined your weekend. That ...
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Whidbey Island | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. RSS feed for this section. An Ounce of Prevention. July 26, 2015. I was on my way to pick strawberries, driving down a country road when it happened. About a quarter of a mile ahead, I saw a fawn step onto the blacktop. I slowed down. The fawn saw the car, turned, and began running straight toward us. I stopped, but the truck behind me didn’t or, anyway, not as soon as I stopped. The […]. Continue Reading →. March 17, 2015. Continue Reading →. January 27, 2015. I work part-time...
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Uncategorized | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. RSS feed for this section. Five Reasons to Write Memoir. November 30, 2014. Memoir has been maligned as navel-gazing, faux fiction, self-aggrandizement, an exercise in me-me-me. The criticism is spurious. If you’re not interested in a story, don’t read it but if that story happened to you, if it’s lodged in your memory, then there are at least five good reasons for you to write it down. It’s YOUR life. You are the star of your […]. Continue Reading →. October 6, 2014.
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Life Spans | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. October 13, 2014. As we all will. My friend Donna Hood and I teach a course on some of the things we can do in light of the fact that we are going to die record our favorite personal stories, write our own obituary. Who else is going to remember what matters most to us! Donna asked her elder daughter to write her (Donna’s) obituary, and she (the daughter) remembered an ancient and minor beauty crown but forgot to mention the existence of her own father. That’s fine, but death.
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No False Spring | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. March 17, 2015. And just when I felt safe, winter would blast back and then it seemed worse, much worse, than it had before that sweet respite of the false spring. But in this time and in this place, it was not a false spring. There was no killing frost to confuse the daffodils, no final blanket of snow. A month on, it’s still beautiful on Whidbey Island. Last week I planted lettuce. Without thinking, I told a friend in New York that, and she almost wept. The change I’m undergo...
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Nutritional Overhaul | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. October 30, 2014. I’ve long been wary of diets that forbid that trinity of culinary pleasure. Dairy, wheat, sugar. Physical pain is a powerful incentive for change, but can changing your diet truly provide a cure? Then a friend with arthritis gave a glowing account of her own nutritional overhaul, an approach called. Then I spent an entire day in a meditation workshop, and when I got home, I picked up. And began to go through it. The next morning I started the diet. A few weeks...
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Re-entry | Re-Entry
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A blog by Margaret Bendet. RSS feed for this section. September 22, 2014. I work part-time at the Whidbey Island library that’s in a double-wide, a cozy space where we have interesting conversations. One day we convinced a library patron to bring in her art portfolio from her car. This artist, Angie Dixon, showed us glorious pictures horses, a friendly orangutan, and one I’ll never forget: a window with rays of light coming through it. Nothing […]. Continue Reading →. September 16, 2014. July 29, 2014.
