The great anti-climax
Thought I’d try to elaborate on a comment I made about the Huffpo entry Grief in the Rearview: I noted in reading her piece that she sort of speeded up […]
Category Archives: Grief
On feeling better
I’d like to add to a conversation started here at Huffington Post, and continued here by the very thoughtful Julie Gillis. In the original Huffpo post, Christy Heitger-Ewing lists 8 things you should […]
Things to keep
I just read Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, a sort of sequel to her wonderful memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, which I read the year it came out, 2007, three […]
Another writer tackles her grief
A friend sent me a link to a post on Huffington Post written by a young writer thinking about braving the subject matter of her mother’s death. She was just 21 […]
A poet’s response to grief
Joy Katz captures some of the frustration of dealing with other people when you are grieving. This essay at the Poetry Foundation is full of lines that resonate with me. […]
Finding your own inner barking dog
A lot of these stories are really about me figuring out they are stories–narratives, if not wholly fictions—that I have used to make sense of my life. And a lot […]
Benny loves Enrique
Living with chronic illness is very difficult psychologically on a person and her family. I’ll write about the many years of Mom’s illness later… it should be written. For now, just understand […]
Pay attention
Since I’m thinking and writing about my experiences with grief and burnout, I made a little trip to BookPeople just to see what was new there. The Grief and Grieving shelf […]
Facing the impossible
Maybe about 6 weeks after Benny moved in with me, I took him with me to San Antonio to stay with my significant other (“E”) for the weekend. I had […]
The beginning of burning out
As I mentioned in, Our Story, this blog is not just about mourning the loss of my mom and getting used to living with her (very bad, but very precious) […]
Benny Is Barking 