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Here is a link to my recent Live LA Radio Podcast with the fabulous Jamie Bronstein Olson. https://www.latalkradio.com/sites/default/files/Videos/Lovetalk-071519_0.mp4   Please feel free to [...]

“Patience is a virtue” is a saying that doesn’t gibe with our society that demands instant gratification.  Today we expect our packages to be delivered the same day; we insist that our Postmates [...]

“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied.” Edna St. Vincent Millay  I will never get over my grief. When my husband Peter and I used to take long car trips with my son, Nick would always [...]

When my husband Peter suddenly died from a heart attack four years ago, the finality of death smacked me in the head.  What happened to the famous line “we lived happily ever after?”  The [...]

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“Don’t compare yourself to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.” – Regina Brett “My grief is worse than your grief” sounds like a kindergarten playground retort.  Is it [...]

As I grieve the loss of my husband, I find that my life is just OK.  I write, I volunteer, I function, but function is the operative word, and it often keeps me in a stagnated state.  I function [...]

When my husband Peter died almost four years ago, yes, I said died, not passed away, not departed, and certainly not resting in peace, I had a refresher tutorial in bereavement terminology.  I [...]

Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote about grief in his poem In Memoriam A.H.H. about the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Henry Hallam:   “I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it when I [...]