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Thomas Wolfe’s book, You Can’t Go Home Again, is something I see clearly with my recent move.  I downsized from a house to a condo and am adrift in finding my new home.   Physically I am [...]

Talking to the Bereaved 101 30 Oct 2018 Expert Opinion Please don’t tell me he’s in a better place!   BY LAURIE BURROWS GRAD Of all the things people say to me about my husband, who died [...]

Maybe it is the fact that I have recently moved from the home Peter and I lived in for so many years, or the awareness of my own vulnerability, but I am experiencing more feelings of loss than [...]

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay  As I [...]

Since my husband, Peter, died three long years ago I have had only a handful of dates. There was the online service I used that ripped me off with four of the worst dates imaginable. One man even [...]

When my adored, amazing niece Ellie got engaged this year I was overjoyed.  Peter had known her fantastic boyfriend Simon, who is a kind and handsome dude, and picture perfect for my niece.  They [...]

It has been over three years since Peter died, and I have learned to be OK while rambling around in my big house.  I sleep on one side of the bed and since I don’t thrash around at night, [...]

It has been three years since Peter died suddenly in my arms.  It has been three long and interminable years of grief, ever fighting to swim to the surface to get a breather of joy.  [...]

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well [...]

The “Hedonic Treadmill” is a term coined in 1971, by two psychologists named Brickman and Campbell, who espoused the theory that a person’s level of happiness remains at a set point throughout [...]