I had absolutely no idea what anxiety looked like thirty years ago when I became a parent. My only familiarity with anxiety and how it looked was my Mom being a “worry wart” or a friend being unable to get in an airplane without an...
Seizures Happen We were at the hospital once again. Another seizure. We were used to the seizures. Our youngest son started having them at two years old. He had 50 to 100 petite mals per day and periodic grand mal seizures. (Or absence seizures and...
I was done. Put a fork in me and set me on the shelf for a time. I just didn't have the tears any longer. My mom had died. There was a lot to do. I had flown in from California to my childhood home...
The News Where were you when you found out? Were you standing up? Sitting down? Were you right with your loved one? I remember the phone calls. I remember where I was sitting - working - laying. One of my closest friends told me about...
1991. That was the year my identity took a shift. I always grew up being "Daddy's Little Girl." I would never be "Daddy's Little Girl" again. Perhaps you know this type of shift, as well. Grief is like that. Grief shifts our world in ways...