I’ll Never Get Used To Your Empty Chair At Christmas
If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout my journey through grief, it’s the way that it comes in waves. No…
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout my journey through grief, it’s the way that it comes in waves. No…
Continue ReadingThere are a lot of mother-daughter memories I never had the chance to make with my mom. Memories that have…
Continue ReadingEvery year it seems to come earlier. Trick-or-treaters haven't even reached out doorstep before Christmas makes its appearance in every…
Continue ReadingTwenty-five years ago, I was a 4th grade book nerd who said goodbye to a dad dying early and to…
Continue ReadingThis morning, it’s raw. The grief. The remembrance. The return of normal (even in crazy, abnormal times) as kids start…
Continue ReadingI remember it like it was yesterday. A cold, wintry day in January in the dead of a Canadian winter.…
Continue ReadingEach morning when I get into my car, I throw my purse into the passenger seat, set my coffee down…
Continue ReadingThe more time that passes, the more isolating grief feels. I have isolated myself. I have pushed people away. I…
Continue ReadingI watched as you were barely hanging on. I watched as you had one foot in Heaven. I watched as…
Continue ReadingThere was a night when tears couldn’t come. The pain was so immense screams wouldn’t lessen the aches. There was…
Continue ReadingJuly 8, 2019 was one of the happiest and proudest days of my life. I had completed my first surrogacy,…
Continue Reading2020 dealt us another blow this morning with the death of beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek at age 80 from…
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