I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More
Category: Grief
What you read in 2020
Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More
This was a good week
Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More
The Sky Over My Mother’s House
The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More
What you missed
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento … More
Before
Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before … More
A holiness to exhaustion
First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More
You’ve got to write it all down
The unexamined life’s no different from … More
The Thing Is
The Thing Is to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles … More