Stormy Days

The Great Picture Purge

They were everywhere when I ended my marriage. I couldn’t get away—they were everywhere I looked, everywhere I went… Photos. Thousands of...

Don't Tell Me I Have Time

“Don’t rush into anything!” “You’re young! You have nothing to worry about!” “Thirty three? You have tons of time!” People like to...

My totally unexpected grief of the day

I started crying today because I got perfectly normal lab test results after a doctor's visit. And I have no one to tell about my...

That time I got trapped in a cemetery

I hate cemeteries. Cemeteries are like a light-up marquee sign saying “Grieve here!” which I’ve carefully avoided going to whenever...

Baby Grief

I'm grieving for the children I don’t have. The grief that I feel as a childless woman in my thirties, with no babies for me on the...

Fort Worth, Texas: Where it all began

There's something about being physically in the place where my relationship began that's allowing me to reflect on it in a whole...

Jan. 6th: Grieving my British Great Aunt & American Democracy

On this day a year ago, I started my day by watching the live stream of my great aunt's funeral in England, and I ended it by watching...

12:01AM

I wrote this on Facebook a year ago today as 2020, the worst year of my life, came to a close. "New Years has always been one of my...