I was picking my cuticles while I sat in my GP’s office a few months after David died. I was telling him that my milk was drying up and how I was dreading the approach of Christmas. He listened and ...
grief
permanence and peekaboo
Babies don't understand object permanence. If they can't see it, they think it doesn't exist. It's only after they grow that they start to understand just because their block is under a blanket, ...
lighting a candle
Grief is a process. You can't hurry it up. Initially, I tried reading my way through it. Devouring books about grief and waiting for a eureka moment, when I could make my peace with what had ...
R U OK? Day
Grief is a very difficult thing to understand. For those on the outside, it can be difficult to know what to do, what to say, how to act. I was lucky to be surrounded by so many caring people when ...