After my husband passed away, someone sent me this newspaper clipping about death, and how the person is still present, but has only,...

I have often written about the duality of grief. The joy of milestones and holidays is so often overshadowed by the sadness of loss. As...

I often find myself dividing time into two distinct periods: "Before his death" and "After his death." This framework has come to define...

There is a wholly and completely different kind of grief that begins to happen after the dust settles on a loved one’s passing. One that...

A friend mentioned to me the other day that her husband was talking about my late husband. The feeling of love enveloped me, and the...

High Anxiety… I never saw the movie, but I can certainly relate to the title. These past seven years, I have found many helpful ways to...

8/3/23 A few things about my dad: my earliest memory of him was driving around Queens, a Marlboro red in one hand, the other on the...

The worst thing that has ever happened to me has become the thing that I am most grateful for. I recently heard someone say this during...

A few weeks ago, a close friend lost her father, she was grieving and said to me, “How do you know when there is a sign”? I wouldn’t say...

06/12/2020 As soon as Memorial Day rolls around, I know it coming. The influx of commercial propaganda about Father’s Day. It slams me...

5/5/2020 To my beautiful children, Although today is not Daddy’s actual Yahrzeit, I often feel, to some extent, it is. Four years ago...

12/17/19 Thanksgiving has been the most challenging holiday for me since my husband passed 3.5 years ago. It has been the hardest...

11/7/19 One of my most treasured possessions are cards, cards that my husband wrote to me over the years. He didn’t just give me cards on...

10/15/2019 My husband died when he was fifty. To say that this is a milestone I’ve been looking forward to would simply be false for...

9/30/19 Dear Olivia, This is not the letter I envisioned writing to you 18 years ago. The letter I most likely would have written you...

6/10/2019 Some people become widows in the blink of an eye, a tragic accident or sudden death, and some become widows after what I can...

5/24/19 Tomorrow marks 3 years that you have been gone. Gone from this earth, from me and our beautiful children. The overwhelming...

10/18/18 I have a birthday approaching, my third birthday. The third one as a widow; I will be 49 this year. I still tend to separate...