by jo | Mar 25, 2021 | Grief, Memoir & Essays
Let’s talk about trauma. The first death I remember experiencing and truly grieving was the death of our kitten, Curious, who was run over by a car when I was young. The day that it happened, I punched the trunk of our crepe myrtle tree in the front yard until my...
by jo | Apr 12, 2020 | Grief
I don’t remember what we did for Easter the year my sister died. To be honest, maybe we didn’t do much that Easter. I don’t know. It was a little over a month after she died, and I only know that much because I just googled “Easter 2004” to find out — the...
by jo | Nov 4, 2018 | Everyday Stories, Grief
A month ago I shared a post on social media that read: Some of you have asked how I am after this. About how I feel about how the meeting went. This is how I am. This is how I feel: Lighter Sadder Lighter than I’ve been in since childhood. Sadder than I expected I...
by jo | Mar 11, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Grief
That grief that stays with you like sad marrow in your bones— that is different — when the grief is still very real, but it’s lying dormant like a constant heavy burden, sometimes heavier than others, not the active grief, clenching down like a lion’s jaw on your...