I’m 25, so I am officially a quarter of a century old. I’ve started to feel the pressure that society puts on 20-somethings to get married, be successful, have children, own a home, and to…
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Monday would have been Mom’s 69th birthday. It’s difficult to take that in because the last birthday I spent with her was her 60th which was three month’s before she died. My brothers and I…
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There are a million different ways to cope with your loss that people are going to suggest. The best ways I’ve found to cope with my loss are things that make me happy and impact…
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It’s not like I don’t have triggers. I do (maybe even more than the average person does eight plus years into their journey of grief). Just the other day I broke down in tears in…
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Sometimes I just don’t see myself making it. The thing about writing is it’s both a vast and open world of possibility and a small and confined space of honesty. There is no room in…
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I lost my mother and only parent when I was 19. She had been battling metastatic breast cancer for four years, but kept defying the doctors’ expectations so when she actually died, it was a…
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