Seventeen
August 17th, 17 years ago. I’d been home only a few minutes after an afternoon spent at my mother’s bedside when a feeling flooded me and I knew I had [...]
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Aug, 2022
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Aug, 2021
Grief Has No Shelf Life
August 17th, again. The anniversary of the day my mother took her last inhale and never again exhaled. After hours with her, I’d stepped out of the room only [...]
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May, 2020
Amidst a Pandemic by Kathryn Mattingly – Guest Post
I am delighted that award winning author Kathryn Mattingly has generously allowed me to share with you her personal, yet universal, post about the challenges she has been facing while [...]
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Aug, 2019
The Forest
We entered the woods this year. In January. We didn’t slowly stroll in—we were yanked out of our complacency and tossed into the thicket. We never left, but often [...]
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Mar, 2017
And the winner is — I don’t know
I've watched the Academy Awards since I was a little girl, and for the past few years the Golden Globes. I'd hear the actors and actresses in advance of the [...]
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Nov, 2016
Thanksgiving Gratitudes
Thanksgiving plays an important role in my book, The Space Between: A Memoir of Mother-Daughter Love at the End of Life. It is my favorite holiday despite my father dying [...]