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Blog postAgain on the topic of death and life (sorry to those who are groaning right now, but I’m a pathological contemplator of the human condition).
When I went to Edmonton for my transplant it all happened very fast. I had about three days to prepare and leave my girls and family to a possible new life or, as I had been warned m
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Blog postThis is a cool photo Franck took of the cobblestones leading up to the Colosseum in Rome.
As I’ve mentioned before. I have zero chill about old stuff. I paw it and marvel over those Romans who built this thousands of years ago.
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Blog postAbout eight months after my transplant we’d moved into a new house and there were major renovations happening at the house next door. I’ve been around construction sites my whole life, but this was the most poorly run job I’d ever seen.
I didn’t complain about the noise or the huge trucks coming and going, because I am sym
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Blog postWant to hear something amusing about my memoirs? I wrote these books largely for my daughters, but my girls and Franck have never read them, nor do they have any intention to.
Readers in Victoria often pepper my immediate family with questions about their role in my Grape Series stories. My family always answer the same w
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Blog postI had a fascinating conversation with a friend about why Latin countries like France, Italy, Spain, etc. have developed a culture so focused on pleasure whereas other cultures have not.
The roof of St. Peter’s at the Vatican. Laura Bradbury
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Blog postIt’s true that since my transplant I’ve discovered a new kind of peace. Of course I still get stressed, life gets chaotic, and at times I feel like a wild banshee (not that this is necessarily a bad thing), but still...something profound has shifted.
I know what shifted, but it is an answer that makes many people deeply un
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Blog postMe having lunch in the piazza in Apricale, Italy.
This is my vacation face - happy, fulfilled, inspired...Many moons ago I decided I would no longer try to have the “perfect” trip (almost impossible because we all get tired, disoriented, and my stomach has always been
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Blog postMy sweating and having zero chill in front of the Coliseum.
Is it possible to have less than zero chill when travelling? If so, I have that.
My grandmother Agnes had a friend - let’s call her Ruth - who she traveled to Europe with twice. My grandma always rolled her eye
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Blog postI often refer in an offhand manner to my “OR Litmus Test”. My longtime readers, who accompanied me on my journey to and through transplant, know what this means, but for my newer followers (welcome!!!!) I thought it would be good just to re-clarify what that means.
Here goes:
Before I got sick I was overwhelmed with the
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Blog postWhen people ask where I am with my writing and I tell them I just handed my A Vineyard for Two manuscript to my editor, they often exclaim “you write so fast!”.
Um. NOPE.
I think traditionally published authors can often afford to write at a leisurely pace, but many self-published authors I know publish four novels a year,
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Blog postHow do you fill up your memory bucket?
I didn’t realize how important memories were until I got sick. My memories of my life lived up until that point were a well of strength I dipped into whenever I needed. My memory bucket reminded me of what I had been so lucky to have experienced, and gave me the will to fight so that
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Blog postI’m a massive lover of words. A good thing, seeing as I’m a writer. I stumbled across one recently that I find just sublime. Here it is;
SISU
It’s Finnish and a noun. It means, “extraordinary endurance in the face of adversity * persistence, determination, guts * full of courage, tenacity, resolve, willpower, and an indomit
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Blog postBonjour! I’m Laura and I have Many Opinions. I’m also a writer, entrepreneur, mother, wife, and PSC & organ donation advocate.
Some folks believe that public people have somehow surrendered their right to express an opinion.
B.S.. In this day and age, everyone should be expressing their opinions LOUDLY and PUBLICLY.
The pol
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Blog postImage @pottermore
During one of the most difficult months of my life I was reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
That month, I went from functionally sick with my PSC to being scary sick. My bilirubin shot up to over 130, my skin and eyes turned an alluring sha
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Blog postIf I can become a finisher, trust me - you can too.
I’m great at starting things. House builds, paintings, purging my bedroom, writing projects, books, bullet list journals...
Finishing? Doesn’t come so naturally for me. Somewhere around the middle of the process things
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Blog postThis is Franck and I on a mountaintop in Greece.
We thought it would be hilarious to adopt the constipated / deeply philosophical expressions of Greek statues. You know, a combination of contemplating a certain paragraph of Plato and / or suffering the digestive issues created by eating too much baklava.
Why did this pose
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Blog postWe certainly have fewer guests in the winter at our vacation rentals in Burgundy. Yes, it can get cold. It’s also beautiful though. Here are some photos of winter in Burgundy, taken by me and Franck’s mother, Michèle.
Below is the path that leads to our house La Maison des Chaumes the morning after a good winter frost. It’s like a fairy-land isn’t it?
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Blog postI have never been on the receiving end of as many gushing compliments on my appearance as I was after being diagnosed with a terminal disease.
Shortly after being diagnosed with PSC, just before my fortieth birthday, my skin became perma-tanned with jaundice. I was, for the first time in my life, able to eat everything I w
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Blog postWhat is “Frenchitude” you may ask?
I coined the word several years ago, and it goes like so: French + Attitude = Frenchitude
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Blog postIn Bermuda I basically lived in this bathing suit cover up / dress / tunic made out of pleated white cotton.
After my transplant, I made a big change in my closet. After all my body had been through, I was never again going to make it suffer by wearing anything remotel
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