by jo | Mar 15, 2016 | Everyday Stories
Over the next few months I’ll be working on a small e-book project about the things no one talks about when they talk about grief. Obviously, I write about grief a lot, and I wish when I was first experiencing grief that I could’ve found some pretty...
by jo | Mar 1, 2016 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
When I was a probably four or five years old, I really wanted a horse. I’d been praying for one for a long time. Our next door neighbors had a pasture with horses in it. Our next door neighbors on the other side often had horses in their pasture. And while we...
by jo | Mar 3, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
Eleven years. It’s been 11 years since she died. My older sister. Julie. Two years ago on my birthday, I wrote a column about celebrating even when it’s hard, and I talked about when my sister died, and the birthdays that followed. In the piece, there was this line:...
by jo | Aug 12, 2014 | Everyday Stories
When I saw that Robin Williams had died, I cried. A few silent tears ran down my cheeks at first. And then they just kept coming. Out of nowhere it seemed, I had grief for a person I had never met. This has happened to me when they are related to someone that I care...
by jo | Aug 6, 2014 | fiction writings & poetry
*This is a fictional short story I wrote as a part of my list of 25 goals to accomplish before I turned 25. This Isn’t Funny A Short work of Fiction by Joanna O’Hanlon “Hi!” she said, smiling while leaning in to give him a peck on the lips when...