Growing Grief

For 30 days, I have been writing gratitude letters to people who changed my life. This final letter is to my best friend, a partner in…

A short tale of dealing with the difficult job of letting things out.

My first holiday season as a widow was one filled with one conflicting emotion after another. That Thanksgiving was more of a blur than…

My dog is dying and my heart is breaking

A story of anticipatory grief

Grief Dictates Your Feelings and Thoughts

Repairing your heart through music can be a painfully good thing.

I’ll be way better looking in your memory

Learning to be alone

Chapter 15

My father had died a few short weeks prior, and I was out drinking on a Sunday. You know, one of those daytime sessions that never end…

When my Dad died suddenly, the shock and despair was overwhelming. The man I had loved above everyone else and whom had been my rock in the…

A few weeks after my mother passed away, my sisters and I started the process of going through my mother’s things. We needed to sort out…

Facing Invisible Grief Daily

Wallowing in your hurt feelings keeps you from moving forward.

Letting go isn’t easy at any age…

I got through the tough moments because peace surrounds me.

What is a widow’s funk, you may ask?

I could tell you the story or you could imagine the sadness of autumn

At only 47 years old, his life was over in an instant

My father would have been 89 years old today.

Especially in this case, please think before you speak

Widows are coping with a new direction