Grief and Loss

I have meditated on death for a long time now. Sometimes to the chagrin of some who deemed it unhealthy dwelling. My stages of grief were long and arduous to…

Last year has been heavy for a lot of us. And yes 2021 is better we hope and I hope but, I’ve been thinking of our ability to move on.…

There’s no right thing I can say to you now There’s no wrong thing you can do Go there, anywhere you need to Anywhere it takes you whether you want…

My despair compels me to write and it is not cheerful this despair. Harvey in Houston, the floods in Mumbai followed an already morose month of mourning for us. We lost…

We’ve been talking about spring and renewal a lot. Well, it is spring after all! But spring comes after winter, a time when things die. And that, death, we don’t…

As I was trying to begin this blogging journey another journey came to an end. The last time I was with him was about a month ago on his 86th…

Songs I haven’t heard before make me wonder .. Was it before you, had you heard them too … I’m holding your 6 month niece .. She smiles and I…

Much like the constantly evolving world around us, ‘Happiness’ and how I find it has changed over the years. Our ideas on what makes us happy are definitely shaped by…

After a harrowing day trying to get my cell phone to work, the taxi to find the right address and my credit card to be usable in Europe I am…

Mya was one of my sister’s and my favorite names. She passed away at the prime of her age to an illness leaving me devastated and struggling to fill a…