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by Sheila Collins | Jan 10, 2019 | Good Will Come, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers

I was about 5 years old when my mother would take me to visit a woman she admired named Caroline. Looking back, Caroline must have been in her 20s, so to me she was a grown-up, but oddly, living in a bed with bars on it like a child’s crib. She would sit up in her bed...

Gifts That Endure

by Sheila Collins | Aug 3, 2014 | Health, Personal Stories, Play

We were house guests at some friends’ lake house last weekend. Having never been there we decided that instead of bringing a house gift with us, we’d wait to see what they might need. After we got home, it was great fun selecting a couple of practical kitchen items to...

Resting In Peace

by Sheila Collins | Nov 16, 2013 | Grieving, Story-telling

Last Saturday morning, while visiting the Bay Area, my husband and I were walking in a seaside park dedicated to the memory of the farm labor organizer, Cesar Chavez. As we walked the weather gave a clear demonstration of the micro-climates of the bay area; one...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

The Medicine and Magic of Objects

by Sheila Collins | Apr 17, 2012 | Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

My friend placed the music box on a blanket in the center of the room, displaying it with reverence for all to see. Running the palm of her hand across its shiny surface, she told the story of how it came to her. According to a cousin, her grandmother gave it to her,...

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