Live Life Now: Stop Waiting for Someday
How many of us have those cheerful little signs hanging around the house — “Live, Love, Laugh,” or “Be Grateful, Be Honest, Give Thanks”? You know the ones. They’re…
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Moving Through The Calendar One Day at a Time
How I face the days that try to break me I started this blog to make sense of the heartbreak of losing Eddie—to waking up every day with questions…
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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…
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More than One Elephant in the Room
I’ve never had to work through grief on this level. For the first time in my life, I was truly, deeply in love, and now the man that I…