Showing posts with label grief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grief. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2018

Soul Flier

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How could you have grown up so fast, when the day you were born, you, grown up, seemed a million years away?  Syd and me when she was about ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

When Robin Flew Away: The Death of Robin Williams

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Updated on February 16, 2024 On my personal scale of the sad and unthinkable, Robin Williams' death by suicide is  off  the scale. In fa...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Bridge Years

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The day that would have been my mother's 93rd birthday passed in January. The second anniversary of her death fell in February. She is s...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Playing the Sympathy Card

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There are still days when I can't believe she's gone, my mother who was so full of life - until, suddenly, she wasn't. And one o...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Honey, People Like You Should Never Go to Those Places By Themselves

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Recently I lost my mother. In its grief, my brain scrambles to recall details of her more recent self while things that happened years ago s...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Defending Facebook: My "Charmed" Life

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If Facebook gets you down, makes you feel your relationships, your family, your furniture, your holidays don't quite measure up, or if y...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Kay-Baby

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I have an older sister named Kay. We don't speak, we never exchange gifts, and we've never borrowed each other's clothes. There ...
Monday, March 2, 2015

A Man, or a Building, Like That

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Recently I lost someone I had come to love. Oh, it’s alright in the sense that he didn’t actually die, but he’s gone just the same. Bu...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Juny, We Hardly Knew Ye

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Juniper was a Christmas present from me to my daughter, Syd, who joyously picked her out from among all the other guinea pigs at the pet sho...