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You Call Your Mom While I’m Left Wishing I Could

Eleven years . . . a little over a decade we have been without her. Eleven years of not seeing her smile, hearing her wisdom, or putting up with her…

We live in this society where people are afraid of grief. People are so uncomfortable with talking about their emotions, their grief or conversing…

When I tell someone my mom has Alzheimer’s, the first thing they usually ask is, “Does she know who you are?” There was a time when I could…

I started writing my mom’s eulogy the other day. Not on paper, but in my head. Nothing has happened. Nothing has changed. In fact, things are…

My daughter is only two, but like most moms, when I look at her pictures from what seems like forever ago, sometimes tears come to my eyes. Tears of…

I have never gone through anything quite as bad as this. Sure, I have been through some tough stuff and had some struggles, but nothing prepared me…

You know that super cliché saying “You don’t know what you’ve got till’ its gone”? It is true. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I always knew…