Monthly Archives: January 2019

I didn’t know how I was going to get through this, and it didn’t feel like it would ever get easier. The grief was unbearable. Source: My Mom Dying Taught Me How to Survive — Christie Lynn

Check out this SNL “commercial” for a unique product to avoid unwanted small talk and interactions: the “Alurn.” As in, leave me alone – I have an urn. Source: SNL: Avoid Unwanted Conversations with an Urn | A Good Goodbye … Continue reading →

Boy, do I envy my cats’ ability to fall asleep any place, any time. I’ve lived with chronic physical pain for over a decade and there are nights when it is hard to go to sleep-when it i… Source: grief … Continue reading →

Author Megan Devine discovered our culture’s unwillingness to acknowledge grief after her partner died suddenly in 2009. Source: ‘Stay Strong,’ And Other Useless Drivel We Tell The Grieving | Cognoscenti

It is possible to go through life without having to question your faith. But I’m not sure that is a good thing. Although I would never, ever have chosen this path, child loss has forced me to… Source: NO Heart … Continue reading →

Source: Alberta mom dying of rare dementia gives birth to healthy baby | Globalnews.ca

If you grew up Appalachian, you usually had a family relative who was gifted and could foresee approaching death, omens or dreams of things to come. Source: Sitting Up With the Dead: Lost Appalachian Burial Customs

As I enter my seventh year of widowhood and the first month of the New Year, I am trying to reflect honestly on my creative work in the same ways that I’ve tried to be honest through that work. It’s … Continue reading →

The first three months after Dominic ran ahead to heaven were full of social obligations. Dominic left us in mid-April.  My youngest graduated college five days after we laid Dom to rest.  My eldes… Source: Surviving Social Situations After Child … Continue reading →

A palliative care nurse explains what to expect in the last days and hours. Source: The Choices We Make for Others at the End of Life by Sallie Tisdale — YES! Magazine