The Great Eyeglass Hunt
Now featuring Bonus Pairs The running joke in our house was always the same: “Have you seen my glasses?” Followed by, “We really need to put a tracker on…
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Staying Strong in the Quiet Season of Grief
Nesting, organizing, and finding comfort before winter. There’s something about late August. The light shifts, the air becomes cooler, and the leaves begin to turn. It’s not quite summer…
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A Cold for Days Now
This week, I’ve been sick. And it’s the first time I’ve been sick since Eddie died.Full transparency: between the two of us, I was always the one who wanted…
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The Things He Did —And Now I Do Too
This weekend I spent time with family I love dearly, tucked away in the North Carolina mountains where the air is cool and clean and you can hear a…
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Grief and Stress: One Less Layer of Weight
Stress does weird things to the body. Add in menopause and grief, and suddenly you’re waking up drenched every night, wondering if this is just how things go now….
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What Grief Teaches You After Losing Someone You Love
Grief has changed me. Who I am now feels light-years from the woman I was on May 15th, the day before my husband left this world. Loving Eddie, and…
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Sorting Through Love, Loss and Socks
It started with the socks. Which, naturally, led to the t-shirts. Then the shorts. You know how that goes. Yes—I made the decision to reorganize the space Eddie and…
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A Happy Healing Thing Happened
Working for a large university has its perks. HR sends out mass emails about wellness events, discounted gym memberships, virtual meditations, ergonomic tips for your office chair. You name…
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Designing a New Life
When reality hits, it doesn’t tap you on the shoulder—it knocks the wind out of you. And this new reality? It’s the slow understanding that, at some point, I’ll…
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Turns Out, We Still Know How to Laugh
What do you get when you attend an afternoon tea with people who’ve recently lost someone they love? If you guessed sadness, and an emotional landslide of tears… you’d…