Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014 6:14 PM
The blog is on hiatus for a while as I work on other projects. Thank you for reading!
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Kaitlin Murphy: Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 6:11 PM
For Timmy, Georgie, Karen, Scott, B & B
I don’t fall in love with other people’s pets easily. I need to see what they’re made of before they’ll be enjoying my undying affection, and I want to feel connected to another soul before it will cuddle on my lap.
If people gravitate toward pets that are similar to themselves, I was surprised to fall hard for two pitbulls who were not even mine. When a close girlfriend got married ten years ago, dogs Timmy and Georgie came with the husband.
I did not like pitbulls. |
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Kaitlin Murphy: Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:40 PM
Hail Mary Full of Grace For Margaret, II
The week before last, I held my grandmother’s hand while she died in a quiet room at Mercy Hospital in South Buffalo, New York. Her son and his wife, my uncle and aunt, stood on her other side.
She had seen her mother, she'd said.
“It’s ok to go with her, Mom,” my uncle said. “You did a good job. We love you. We’ll see you again.”
We repeated how much we loved her. |
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Kaitlin Murphy: Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:33 PM
Soon after I drafted this, I made the 911 call that would bring my grandmother, Margaret, to the hospital on the last day of her life. I had been living with her since June, sharing primary caregiving for a brief time with my uncle and nearby family members, while she healed from the severe leg injury resulting from congestive heart failure she’d suffered from for decades.
While my gut had been telling me she would go before enduring another Buffalo winter, to protect her privacy I was reluctant to post what I’d written while she lived. |
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Kaitlin Murphy: Posted on Friday, June 24, 2011 6:06 PM
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Kaitlin Murphy: Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:10 PM
Expectations were high. This was the Dalai Lama after all. Was it too much to expect the most profound insights we'd ever heard, solutions to the problems of the world at large and our smaller worlds within it?
This past weekend the Tibet House, the Drew Katz Foundation, Columbia professor and Buddhist scholar Robert Thurmanand Newark Mayor Cory Bookerhosted His Holiness the Dalai Lamaat the Newark Peace Education Summitin New Jersey. With the heightened security, bows of deference and the craning of thousands of ears toward his every word, it was hard for me to imagine what it would be like to face such out-sized expectations when traveling--feeling their weight in the very air between you and everyone you meet, people who want something important from you that they cannot quite name but expect nonetheless. |
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