Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
Today is Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, which I’ve written about before because I find it so beautiful…
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Dogs and Seasons
A decade ago, when my then-husband and I were looking for a bigger house in our area, we continually perused a neighborhood…
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Shitty Anniversary, duh.
A couple of days ago, one of the many grief-y Instagram accounts I follow posted: “Death anniversary. The shittiest of all anniversaries.”…
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Keeping Count
Every year on this day, I celebrate the fact my big brother was born. And I mourn the fact that he isn’t…
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Congratulations! I’m sorry.
Sometimes it feels like everything that ever happened to me has compounded. As if the addition of all my life’s wins and…
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The Trouble with Memories
You know it’s been a long time when you think it is the 15th anniversary of a death and then realize, counting…
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Dog Person
“It’s hard to imagine Anne without Trixie,” my friend Karen said on Friday when I had to say goodbye to my beloved…
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Subject to Change
“The only thing that is constant is change,” wrote the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. This is true, yet often hard to accept….
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Open love letter to my friends, and all friends
Wow, what a time to be alive, and afraid, and also so clear. The pandemic has made all of us reevaluate what…
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When the dead walk among us
It’s just past Halloween, and we’ve finished All Souls Day on the Christian calendar, a time to commemorate our departed ones. Now…
