Birthdays feel different when your mother is dead. No one makes you feel special the way that she did. Why your birthdays feel so very different when your mother is dead No one starts your morning with a phone call the way that she did. And no one buys you a dozen pink roses the…
I had a hysterectomy at age 39 even though it was scary.
When I was 18 years old and about to start college, my mother almost died.
She became extremely anemic after experiencing months of increasingly heavy periods.
My mother never got the chance to be an amazing grandmother.
My mother wanted to take her grandchildren to the beach.
I will never be the fun one.
You know that carefree friend you have who’s always smiling and always makes people laugh, even when she’s having a bad day? Wait, does she even have bad days? Yeah, those people are great. They probably get invited to a lot of parties, but they’re not me.
Creating a playlist of songs that will comfort people in their grief for my Where Did My Sweet Grandma Go? launch party really calmed my anxious heart.
