by KimBoo York | Feb 28, 2013 | Reflections
I have absolutely no idea how I stumbled over the Secular Celebrations & Humanist Ceremonies website, but I did. It is open on a tab in my browser and I have no idea why, but maybe that’s a good thing. I remember planning for my mother’s funeral, which was held in...
by KimBoo York | Feb 19, 2013 | Grief, Mourning
I don’t think it is true that grief “steals our happiness.” Grief is not a thief; if we want to get all literary we could say that “Death is a thief” but grief? No, grief steals nothing from us. It simply settles over our bones like a...
by KimBoo York | Feb 12, 2013 | Atheism, Grief, Mourning
This post is not about grief, but it is something that has been on my mind for a while now. I want to talk about my perspective in writing this blog, and where it comes from, and why it’s different from most skeptic’s blogs out there, and how (maybe) that...
by KimBoo York | Feb 1, 2013 | Grief, Reflections
Over at Planet Grief, Helen Bailey wrote an evocative and emotional post, Life, Death and Laundry, about post-death hoarding. She talks about keeping things long past their “due date” and her unwillingness to wash the bedsheets she had once shared with her...
by KimBoo York | Jan 29, 2013 | Mourning
“So why do we prepare ourselves for birth and death so differently? Largely because birth is good news and death is not.” This line captivated me. It’s in Planning a Funeral? Why Information Is Power at HuffPost. And it’s true, of course…but it hasn’t always been this...
