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GRIEF

AN EVENING WALK ALONG THE BEACH
Sometimes events that make a lasting impression upon one’s soul and memory happen at times of emotional trauma and special needs. I have been blessed with a number of events, and one of the most recent I will share with you. <read more>

A BOOK BY DONALD E. WATSON, MD
Focusing on a wide range of personal crises--losses of a loved one, jobs or careers, money, health, youth, social status, relationships, opportunities, hopes and dreams-- Dr. Watson (a board certified psychiatrist from Santa Ana, CA) takes issue with conventional “stages of grieving” theories, contending that such an approach may actually impede healing by promoting excess intellectualization. <read more>

MEMORIAL
There is no subtle way to lead into what I need to write.

A little before midnight on Saturday evening, the 21st of January at a "big band" dance, immediately following two swing numbers, my husband looked at me and said, "I'm feeling dizzy," swayed slightly and collapsed onto the dance floor. <read more>

CLOSURE
For what was beginning to feel like forever, I’d been waiting for closure to occur as the crowning achievement of mourning the loss of my beloved husband.

I’d come through the first year with flying colors, or so I thought. People told me, “You’re doing so well,” whatever that was supposed to mean--that I wasn’t bawling my head off in public and talking about him every waking moment? That I could function, even smile, laugh, quip and be silly? <read more>