Aftermath: Disintegration (Grieving Futures)
More accurately: I begged for help. We could not afford to hire nurses, Poppa was suffering from his major stroke a few months prior, and I was just this side of a nervous breakdown.
Remembering is better than prayer
In our modern, fractured world, friends are often closer to use physically and emotionally than the majority of our relatives.
Honesty, Integrity, and Robert Downey Jr.
I open myself up to criticism by speaking honestly about my failures and mistakes, and I know that.
Times are changing!
I am graduating with my Master’s in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University, after two years of continual, full-time classes (even summer terms)!
Death Cafe: talking about death
The world I lived in, back then, did not talk about death, so when people I loved started dying I was not really prepared for the aftermath
Grieving Futures, podcast: Introduction
The next installment of my book, Grieving Futures. This week’s reading is the introduction
The Heartbreak of Independence
I’m left with a deep aversion to the Fourth of July holiday. It was never my holiday, because I didn’t care too much, but it was Father’s…
Grieving Futures Podcast #1
This is a very short podcast of the preface to my book, Grieving Futures: Surviving the Deaths of My Parents, My Home, and My Future. I will be reading the book chapter by chapter over the following weeks. Feel free to listen, download, and share all the recordings....
Creative Grief
I am hard on myself about grief. I’m mad that I let it derail my life for 15 years, and I don’t expect to ever truly forgive myself for that. Which, of course, is the worst possible thing to do to yourself, because holding that kind of thing over our own heads is as...
Father’s Day is every day, remembered
It’s always the holidays, isn’t it? Father’s Day (US) is today, and so my social media feeds are all filled with people sending love to their fathers or spouses, and fathers thanking their families for dedicating a day to them. Some of us post comments about how much...
Death and the Present Moment (vid, Sam Harris)
I was lucky to watch this video of Sam Harris earlier today, and I want to share it with you because I feel he touches on some important topics concerning death and atheism. As usual, Sam Harris discusses these profound matters much more cogently than I can, and with...
Tragedy changes us; Patience tempers us; Fortitude keeps us going.
Lessons in grief, crisis, and recovery from 30 years of life as an adult orphan from a GenX woman who has resentfully struggled every step of the way.
