Claudia Putnam: Writer: Poetry & Prose

Tag: anxiety

Thinning Down the House

Aug 14, 2012

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Claudia Putnam

in Bereavement, Life Changes, Relationships

I’m moving on again. I’ve had to do this a few times in the past couple of years. Like a lot of people, we’re finding that the jobs we want or can get are not necessarily where we were living, or where we wanted to live. (Yay for the efficiencies of capitalism, as people take…
PTSD—What It’s Like

Dec 8, 2010

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Claudia Putnam

in Books, Grief, Life Changes, PTSD, Trauma, Wildfire

Ever had stage fright? I don’t mean the good kind. Where you have some butterflies in your stomach and a bit of a metallic taste in your mouth. Maybe that’s slightly unpleasant but it can also help you focus a little better and in the end it seems to come out all right. The audience…