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Tender Loving Care for a Marriage

Tender Loving Care for a Marriage Sabin and I came to a dark and stormy place in our marriage. That diction belies the fresh and cutting pain of such a place and time. When we both returned to the marriage, we sought help in putting things back together. There are Read more…

By Traci L. Slatton, 11 months9 months ago

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Returning to Source and Writing Again

Write again, they are telling me. You must write, Traci. It’s the new theme: writing again. The past twelve months have been excruciating. I am struggling. It’s been a year of comings and goings from my life; intermittency like a suddenly thrown grenade blew up my peace of mind. It Read more…

By Traci L. Slatton, 12 months ago

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Marriage and Family are Real: Marriage and Family are Love

Marriage and Family are Real: Marriage and Family are Love (reprise of a Facebook Post I wrote) This is our family. We’ve gone to see the Tree at the Met for nearly 2 decades. It’s love. Family is love, and it is everything. Family is real. Family radiates from Read more…

By Traci L. Slatton, 1 year ago

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From the HuffPo: Review of HEAL Documentary

This is a recent piece on the HuffPo, a review of the HEAL Documentary by Kelly Noonan Gores When I was 15 or 16, I developed asthma. My mother took me to a doctor who duly prescribed medication. I took the medication for a few days. I hated it. The Read more…

By Traci L. Slatton, 1 year1 year ago

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Yoga Teacher Training

Yoga Teacher Training A few months ago, a long time friend came for dinner. She’s an American living elsewhere. She’s brilliant and amazing and full of knowledge, an expert in her field. But she has forgotten how to listen. She talked over my husband and me and couldn’t hear any Read more…

By Traci L. Slatton, 2 years2 years ago

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Beautiful Santa Fe

There’s a friend to whom I used to send lengthy missives about my life. I fear I trespassed against my friend’s great kindness with these long notes. I have promised myself to stop. But as George Orwell said, writing is thinking, and in the process of writing, I clarified things Read more…

By Traci L. Slatton, 2 years ago