Blog Posts

  • Packing and Cleaning After Loss

    Packing and Cleaning After Loss

    As a follow up to my previous post, where I reflected on my personal journey cleaning up in my grief, I wanted to post a practical guide to packing and cleaning after loss. This is intended for those experiencing it first hand as well as for the friends and family who want to help but… Read more

  • Grief Piled High

    Grief Piled High

    Grieving doesn’t come with a check list, a certificate of completion, or a gold medal. It’s never perfected or finished on this side of eternity. It evolves. We move forward with it. However, sometimes after certain losses there are actual check lists and tasks that have to be done. My goal early on was to… Read more

  • Behind the name: The Neon W

    Behind the name: The Neon W

    The scarlet letter: a scarlet A worn as a punitive mark of adultery; from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). Instead of a scarlet letter A upon my chest, in September 2021 when I became a widow at the age of 30, I felt like I had a glowing, neon W buzzing above my… Read more