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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 [...]

Today is Februray 11, 2020 which would have been our 52nd Wedding Anniversary.  I dedicate this blog to the 47 wonderful years we had together. After my husband died, I clung to his clothes, [...]

“Grief doesn’t change you. It reveals you.”  –  John Green   I recently devoured an amazing book about grief called FINDING MEANING: The Sixth Stage of Grief, by David [...]

After my husband Peter died almost five years ago, I no longer saw the world in color.  I saw only shades of gray, as if I was in an old-fashioned black-and-white movie.  Color and more [...]

When my husband Peter died over four years ago, I was cloaked in a shroud of grief.  Grief surely defined me in every aspect of my life.  I was “the widow Grad.”  I submissively [...]