Honestly, no one warned me. No one said, “It will be brutal, darling.” If you try, you will fail. If …
HOW IT IS
Grief Tag Archives
LEST WE FORGET
In my neighborhood, every day is Memorial Day. Just outside my front door is a beautiful parkway lined on either …
FOR THE LOVE OF GEOFFREY: QUALITY FIRST
The people who change your life aren’t always the ones you expect. Sometimes you don’t even realize a person is altering the …
REAL THANKFUL
But I wonder if the best kind of gratitude is the kind that can hold both thankfulness and longing…
YOU ARE MISSED
I don’t like goodbyes. At all. I never have. I’m just not a fan of endings, even though I know …
LOSING IT
MERCY
Wow, what a week. On Monday, I was overwhelmed by the personal stories of the world crashing in on so many fellow Americans—along with the wind and waves and fire and Hurricane Sandy. Americans who, days earlier, had been walking through their everyday ordinary, plain-jane lives, never suspecting the great losses that were just around the corner. Because we never do.
