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Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

“Oh no. Look Mom!” my son exclaimed as we pulled into the driveway. I looked and didn’t see anything. “Above Grandma’s window,” he pointed. I looked again and saw it. The siding – siding I spent five-figures to replace last summer – was waving in the spring wind like a sheet. We hopped out, and…

It’s ok to die.

Modern medicine makes it hard to die. Not that it’s physically hard to die. Plenty of people do that every day from illnesses ranging from the mundane to the mysterious. No, what modern medicine makes hard is simply letting nature take its course. That’s because, whether it means to or not, modern medicine always holds…

When You Get Left Behind With the Jackass

Ok, let’s call it a donkey. And it was in a dream so it wasn’t real anyway. Dreams tend to be highly personal, but I recently had one that I thought many of you in similar circumstances would understand. It went something like this… My husband and I are in an open wagon pulled by…

Until Every Little Piece of You is Gone

Note: Amazon links on this site are affiliate links.   After my dad died unexpectedly, I distinctly remember sitting with my mom between visitations as she shoved his clothes into garbage bags and cleared out his desk. Meanwhile, here I am, four years after my husband died, and I still haven’t touched his junk drawer…

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

My daughter is 18 today. She was my first baby – my first experience feeling totally unprepared and incompetent. My husband and I were young – 23 and 21 – and it was trial by fire. Her first week at home was spent wrapped in a glowing blanket to ward off jaundice. She lost the…