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Fear + anxiety = emotional unrest, which leads immediately to insomnia. The global pandemic has made restful sleep an uphill battle. I find myself lying in bed, creating scenarios that send me [...]

The coronavirus has caused our mental health to be under siege.  We are stuck inside without an end in sight, which would depress even the most mentally stable of us.   We can’t [...]

As a widow, I know the power of the written word.  I know that when I feel sad and alone, if I go to my computer, I can write my way through the pain.  Maybe it is just knowing that [...]

Joni Mitchell captured the sentiment of gratitude in her song Big Yellow Taxi, half a century ago: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Living through [...]

Ever hear of the “freshman 15?”  The freshman 15 happens when you go off to college and eat so much junk food and starch that you come home at the end of that year with 15 extra pounds, and [...]

As I quarantine in this unfathomable pandemic, I have come to rely more on Amazon Alexa.  She wakes me up; she tells me the temperature outside; she plays me podcasts like my favorite Wait [...]

A reader of my blog recently sent me a quote that totally resonated with me: “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from [...]

Anticipatory grief in the time of a global pandemic is focused on the sudden loss of security.  Anticipatory grief is that gut feeling we get about what the future holds, when uncertainty [...]

Loneliness is one of the hardest aspects of being a widow.  As a suddenly single individual, we feel isolated and saddened at our new status of being solo.  We feel completely and [...]

When you lose the one you love You think your world has ended You think your world will be a waste of life Without them in it You feel there’s no way to go on Life is just a sad, sad song [...]