Weekly Roundup
Admittedly, I am all over the place this week. My dilemma is to keep focus, stay on track, retain as much balance as possible. But that’s the challenge every day, isn’t it? Here’s a round-up of many...
View ArticlePoetry Monday: If My Boundary Stops Here
Last night, I attended shiva for a colleague’s father. A kind man whom I had the privilege of meeting nine years ago, he died at 95 years of age, having lived a very full life. He was a source of great...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup
Admittedly, I am all over the place this week. My dilemma is to keep focus, stay on track, retain as much balance as possible. But that’s the challenge every day, isn’t it? Here’s a round-up of many...
View ArticlePoetry Monday: If My Boundary Stops Here
Last night, I attended shiva for a colleague’s father. A kind man whom I had the privilege of meeting nine years ago, he died at 95 years of age, having lived a very full life. He was a source of great...
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The days between July 14 and 21 are always a strange period for me and for my family. Seven years ago this week, both my grandmother and father died (July 14 and 21, respectively). There’s really no...
View ArticleThoughts on Grief, Part 1
Photo Credit Flecks of gray polish remain on two of my toenails. The rest of the polish has chipped off over the past nine weeks. I don’t want to take it off; the polish should stay there until it...
View Article5 Ways to Deal with Grief this Thanksgiving
Readers of Red Shutters know that I am not enthusiastic about the holidays this year. But here I am on Thanksgiving Day, sitting in my mother-in-law’s living room, surrounded by part of my extended...
View ArticleThoughts on Grief, Part 2: Christmas and Grief
Thoughts on Grief, Part 1 can be found here. “I wish Grandma was alive for Christmas,” my son said. I looked up from checking his math homework. “I wish she was alive for every day,” I replied,...
View ArticleGrieving Mother’s Day
This is a repost of an original piece I wrote for BlogHer.com. “Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be,” writes Joan Didion in her deeply felt memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. Her book...
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The days between July 14 and 21 are always a strange period for me and for my family. Seven years ago this week, both my grandmother and father died (July 14 and 21, respectively). There’s really no...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup
Admittedly, I am all over the place this week. My dilemma is to keep focus, stay on track, retain as much balance as possible. But that’s the challenge every day, isn’t it? Here’s a round-up of many...
View ArticlePoetry Monday: If My Boundary Stops Here
Last night, I attended shiva for a colleague’s father. A kind man whom I had the privilege of meeting nine years ago, he died at 95 years of age, having lived a very full life. He was a source of great...
View ArticleThoughts on Grief, Part 1
Photo Credit Flecks of gray polish remain on two of my toenails. The rest of the polish has chipped off over the past nine weeks. I don’t want to take it off; the polish should stay there until it...
View Article5 Ways to Deal with Grief this Thanksgiving
Readers of Red Shutters know that I am not enthusiastic about the holidays this year. But here I am on Thanksgiving Day, sitting in my mother-in-law’s living room, surrounded by part of my extended...
View ArticleThoughts on Grief, Part 2: Christmas and Grief
Thoughts on Grief, Part 1 can be found here. “I wish Grandma was alive for Christmas,” my son said. I looked up from checking his math homework. “I wish she was alive for every day,” I replied,...
View ArticleGrieving Mother’s Day
Grieving Mother’s Day is a repost of an original piece I wrote for BlogHer.com. “Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be,” writes Joan Didion in her deeply felt memoir The Year of Magical...
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