How Do You Say Goodbye to Your Mother?
Sitting at a McDonald’s table in Charleston, SC, I looked down at my ill-fitting shirt and shorts. Stress had taken…
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Sitting 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…
Continue ReadingIt’s so utterly destructive. It’ll knock the wind—no the very oxygen—out of your sails. It’s nauseating. Conflicting. Terrifying. And so…
Continue ReadingAs I write this, my mother-in-law is in the ICU. We don’t expect her to leave. She’s too young. Sixty-four.…
Continue ReadingI was online, searching old Amazon orders for a part we’d bought for our 1998 Buick Regal. The car was…
Continue ReadingIt is said that grief has stages. Five to be exact. Not sure where I am on that scale, but…
Continue ReadingMy mom was never, ever without a cup of Lipton's tea. Like a dear friend, it held her hand, kept…
Continue ReadingWhen the phone rang at 4:30 in the morning, I knew immediately who it was and what she was going…
Continue ReadingI am 19 years old and it is the smack dab middle of summer and I am sitting outside—al fresco—at…
Continue ReadingI lost my mom when I was 12 and cancer took her away from me. I lost her again when I…
Continue ReadingFebruary 3rd . . . a day that changed my life forever. It was the day my Mom went to…
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