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Even though it has been almost six years since Peter died, when the global pandemic struck, I was hit with grief overload.  Not only was I alone, but I was alone, isolated, and scared out of [...]

When my husband Peter died six years ago, I grieved with my heart and soul for my aching loss.  I was in intense grief and I knew I had to stay there for a long, long time until I could [...]

The title of this blog is indeed a double negative.  The significance of this phrase is worthy of a grammatical error.  It refers to a little-known goddess from Hindu mythology, called [...]

2020, despite its symmetrical sound, has been the worst, the pits, the nadir, the lowest…etc.  You get the picture.  I can’t wait for 2021, and that is said from someone of advanced [...]

The world is in collective grief with a virus causing us fear and the loss of physical freedom to move about.  We grieve for the life we knew before COVID.  We grieve for the lack of [...]

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 [...]