My Mom Passed away and I Don’t Know Who I Am Anymore
For the last sixteen months of her life, I was one of my mother’s primary caregivers, and now that she’s…
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For the last sixteen months of her life, I was one of my mother’s primary caregivers, and now that she’s…
Continue ReadingIn February, you will have been gone a year. How is that right? It was just yesterday. I still remember…
Continue ReadingThree weeks before Easter, my family and I stood in the hallway talking to a team of doctors whom we…
Continue ReadingEveryone has heard about the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Society often assumes the stages…
Continue ReadingMy daughter wobbled toward me in silver, square-toed go-go boots, one heel dislodged and flopping against our hallway’s faux wood…
Continue ReadingI’m not ready. Not ready for time to just keep trudging forward without her. Four years have gone by, and…
Continue ReadingIt’s been 14 years since she left. It’s like a lifetime ago and yesterday at the same time. The loss…
Continue ReadingThe other day someone asked me how my grief has changed over the years since losing a parent at such…
Continue ReadingI was on my way to the dollar store as they were opening, still flush with excitement that I had…
Continue ReadingSitting at a McDonald’s table in Charleston, SC, I looked down at my ill-fitting shirt and shorts. Stress had taken…
Continue ReadingYou rarely hear about relationships built between people who've never met, much less with someone who has passed on. The…
Continue ReadingI’ve been in this motherless daughter club for over a decade now. Most of the time, that still seems strange…
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