Dear Mom, Until We Meet Again
Mom, I pray to the stars that someday, somewhere we pick up where we left off. Before the Alzheimer’s diagnosis.…
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Mom, I pray to the stars that someday, somewhere we pick up where we left off. Before the Alzheimer’s diagnosis.…
Continue ReadingIn February, you will have been gone a year. How is that right? It was just yesterday. I still remember…
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 ReadingMy dad ran off with a woman from California. When you put it like that, it sounds salacious and a…
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 ReadingUnlike most people, I don't associate black as a color with the idea of death. When I think of death, I…
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 ReadingYou think it’s going to be the big holidays that are hard. The first Thanksgiving without her. The first Christmas.…
Continue ReadingMy mom died at the age of 45. Yes, just 45. Around Mother's Day, the reality of just how young…
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