Friday, December 8, 2023

Clinging Tightly to My Love and Memories

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This morning, I woke up crying. I do every December 8th. Usually, it’s after a vivid dream of getting somewhere a moment too late or the ina...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Love Will Find A Way

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It's the time of year when my grief bubbles to the surface. As always, I am caught off guard by just how viscerally it strikes. I feel i...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Changing Seasons of Grief

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This time of year is always hard for me. It’s the season of a complicated dance between beautiful grief and difficult memories. The past cou...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Shaped by Grief

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Three weeks ago today, a glorious and gorgeous light was taken from this world entirely too soon. This young man was really just starting h...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

DearHart

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Eighteen years ago, our beautiful, beautiful baby boy died. When I talk about Hart’s death I try to articulate what a beautiful experience i...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Long of It

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I keep telling myself, everything is going to be fine. I’m sure she’s fine. Then the anxiety creeps in, softly at first, but quickly crescen...
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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Bandwidth

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  I’m out of bandwidth. I just am. I’ve drained all my reserves and even my secret, emergency stash is depleted. On the one hand, I’m glad I...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Grief is the Price We Pay for Love

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Today, I was working on a project, and getting distractedly rage-y thinking about people who throw hate and prejudice around like shrapnel, ...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

The Grieving Season

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It’s my grieving season. This time of year always feels heavy, sentimental, reflective, important. Some years the feelings creep in slowly a...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

REMEMBERING HART

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Today is the day, the day I dread all year.  It comes now as it did then, expectedly unexpected. I remember every detail about that day, or ...