All The Things People Aren’t Saying When They Hear I Lost My Mom

All The Things People Aren’t Saying When They Hear I Lost My Mom

“She’s watching you from above” “She already knows how you feel” “She’s so proud of you” “I bet she’s having a blast in heaven”  The above is a shortened list of pre-approved phrases that people…

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Days 63 – 65 of Grief 365: Letting Yourself Be Sad

Days 63 – 65 of Grief 365: Letting Yourself Be Sad

Dear me, You’re really, really hard on yourself. Sometimes this is okay because it helps us stay motivated and get shit done. (Too Damn Young wouldn’t be what it is today if you weren’t pushing…

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Day 62 of Grief365: Getting Good News and Wanting to Tell Someone Who’s Dead

Day 62 of Grief365: Getting Good News and Wanting to Tell Someone Who’s Dead

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the feeling of not being able to pick up the phone or look across the room for my grandma or mom. This feeling is especially prevalent when…

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Day 61 of Grief 365: Reliving a year ago

Day 61 of Grief 365: Reliving a year ago

Here’s the truth, I suck at writing blog posts every day but I have been especially inconsistent with them because my grandmother’s death anniversary is only a few days away. I’m not particularly sure when…

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Days 58-60 of #Grief365: Faces to Call Home

Days 58-60 of #Grief365: Faces to Call Home

If I had to boil down what losing two of the most instrumental people in my life taught me it would have to be  — value time with people, more than you value time with things.…

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Day 57 of Grief 365: Walking Helps With Thinking

Day 57 of Grief 365: Walking Helps With Thinking

The last birthday my grandmother celebrated with us was my baby cousin’s 11th birthday. At this point, she teetered between being 100% mentally present and drifting to a place that just made her look so peaceful. In…

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