moving on – Claudia Putnam: Writer/Poetry & Prose

Burning Down the Room

Sep 18, 2012

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in Boulder Fire, Grief, Life Changes, Parenting, PTSD, Trauma, Wildfire

I just came back from visiting my son, now 21. As I think about my next steps in the world—I’ve moved into my third rental space in less than two years—it seems like a good time to post this draft of a blog post I found in my files recently. I’m not sure why it…

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…

In Progress

May 18, 2011

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Claudia Putnam

in Life Changes, Parenting, Relationships, Writing

Positive discipline, like going for a run, or studying, or writing a first draft—THAT I can do. But negative discipline: NOT eating the chocolate, or having the second martini, or sleeping with the guy on the first date. That’s harder. Then there’s accepting, moving on, whether it’s positive or negative. Integrating things I didn’t want…

Tag: moving on

Burning Down the Room

Thinning Down the House

In Progress