I’ve written about hope before. Hope is so much different in my world of after, than it was before. Almost exactly a year ago I wrote this in response to a prompt on hope, and I still feel very similar… Read moreAn Alternative to Hope

I know some of what I am writing here has been covered before, but it feels right to talk about it again now. Sometimes we need to share our stories again and again, let the words spill out of us… Read moreThe Sacred Role of Bearing Witness to Death

The exercise I was working on today from Megan Devine’s grief journal, How To Carry What Can’t Be Fixed, involved reflecting on what I want/don’t want in my grief, and then more specifically what I want right now. My list… Read moreWhat I Need Right Now

This was an exercise from Megan Devine’s How To Carry What Can’t Be Fixed, expressing my refusal to be ok with what happened to us, my refusal to accept it. My immediate thoughts after filling the page with these words:… Read moreAn Excercise in Refusal