Guarding Your Heart: Coping With Parental Estrangement

October 29, 2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

Four months ago I missed my granddaughters’ birthday party because I was in the ER with a severe case of vertigo. Because this wasn’t the first event I missed in the last three years my eldest daughter, Taryn, decided she had enough of me disappointing her and thus began a punishment of my being denied […]

Grief Floats: Why We Can’t Let Go

March 22, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

I can’t let go, so I remember. Because remembering is all I have left.

Writing A Grief Blog When Words Fail Me

June 23, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

I have read other grief blogs from mothers who have lost their children and from spouses who have lost their husbands or wives and naturally I sympathize. I ache for them as I read their words written so eloquently and poetically. They are written with purpose and emotion. They write with fluidity, their words beautiful, cultured, […]