December 5, 2023 I liken it to the experience of driving on a stretch of road that allows a driver the experience of the pleasure of the...

October 11th was the last day that we talked. He whispered, “Happy Birthday!” to me. From his bed, he watched me responding to people...

August 31, 2023 If there was ever an artist and friend who inspired me as much as my own mother, it was my dear friend and Sister Artist,...

August 11, 2023 Today is not so easy…It’s the first time I can’t physically hug Al and kiss him as I say to him, “Happy Birthday!” And...

July 20, 2023 Sitting in the peace and silence and aloneness of Al’s absence is a comfort that I selfishly claim as mine. I want to be...

July 12, 2023 I haven’t felt the stirring of creativity for my coiled basketry in my mind for over a year. One of them has been staring...

July 3, 2023 In the grocery store again, and a woman glanced at the items in my cart and said to me, “I know whose house I want to eat...

March 23, 2023 It is an emotional struggle for me to reshape myself back to living in “my own personal space” …the “space of myself.” ...

February 16, 2023 Relaxing into the memory of a Precious Love slowly replaces grief with peace – a kind of calmness. I believe that is...

February 1, 2023 In what “order” are we to place our individual grief in relation to the grief of the world? Over the years and time...

January 25, 2023 I keep asking myself, “Where do I start? In the heart, or in the mind?” I cannot pinpoint where the grief is residing...

I have been thrown off track since the passing of my husband, Al, on October 12, 2022. And since then, I have been trying to steer my...