Living with Grief

‘Tis the season of twinkling lights, holiday cheer, and frenzied shopping. But it is also a time of gathering darkness, short days and long, frosty nights. As the winter deepens,…

When you are grieving, some might say, “Just be grateful that…” These statements rarely land well. No one else gets to tell us how to feel. Your loss and healing…

“In the end, we remember people in pieces — slivers of memory, images, bursts of sound, and trails of whispers.” -Patti Davis, Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can…

As my parents were dying, I developed a fascination with birds. I started purchasing feeders and bird baths, researching the best seeds. I kept the birdbaths fresh and feeders full…

In A Grief Observed, the journal C.S. Lewis kept after his wife died, he described the circular nature of loss, “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging…

“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job — where the machine seems to run on much as usual — I loathe the…