What do You do When Grief Takes Over?

What do You do When Grief Takes Over?

I remember when my mother was dying. I was getting ready for my orals in graduate school and the one thing I What do You do When Grief Takes Over?couldn’t have imagined, since all mothers are invincible, is that my healthy, vivacious, 83-year-old, artist mother would die.

Time stood still as the nurse put me through to her hospital room.

Only, the woman who answered (more…)

What do You do When Grief Takes Over?

Why I Spell covid-19 This Way

Words are a big deal.

No matter how many times we chant―sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me―some part of us knows this is not true.

True, they can‘t break bones, but that‘s because words don‘t operate in the physical dimension. Jump into the emotional dimension and it‘s a very different story.

Centuries ago, words were (more…)