Some time last year Elayne Clift invited me to contribute an essay to an anthology she was putting together. It…
I ended my post on July 4, “A Time to Grieve,” I by saying I was no longer grieving (the…
This past Friday marked 40 days since my mother’s death on May 22. What’s the significance of 40 days?…
A classmate of mine from high school just sent me a beautiful card full of comforting words as I…
I’ve begun again the tradition of reading Psalms and praying the Prayer for the Departed for my mother, which I…
This is a week for grieving. A dear woman in our church passed away last week, after a seven-year battle…
If you’ve been reading my blog for very long, you’ve heard this expression before, so you know what’s coming. In…
In my post on Monday about the 2013 Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference, I mentioned Lee Gutkind’s remarks about the sacrifices…
My dear friend (and Goddaughter) Sue lost her mother on Tuesday. She lived out her final years in a nursing…
Last October I woke up on a rainy Monday (like today) with Karen Carpenter’s words, “Rainy days and Mondays always…