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.
My mother needed us to love her until the end of Alzheimer’s disease. My grandmother took this photo of my mother, my husband, and me over a decade ago. It was Thanksgiving Day, six months after my mother’s initial diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. And it was seven years before the end of Alzheimer’s…
My parenting resolution is to give my kids more life and less grief. This year, I want to give my kids more experiences and less things. I want to give my kids more new perspectives and less judgement. And I want to give my kids more encouragement and less criticism. My parenting resolution is to…
Your grief does not make me uncomfortable. I won’t try to fix your grief. I won’t tell you platitudes like, “They’re in a better place,” or, “At least you had x amount of time with them.” I won’t dismiss or invalidate your feelings. I won’t tell you not to cry. I won’t tell you that…
Are you searching for the right sympathy gifts to show someone you care? It is so difficult to know what to say or do to soothe a grieving heart. In recent years, I have experienced the loss of my mother, my stepmother, my uncle, my grandparents, and family friends, and I still sometimes struggle to…
