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Welcome newbies!!! Thanks for being here. I try to keep these short (1000 words) so that it’s easier to read. And this year I’d like to

How to Find Joy in the Middle of the Rubble Happy December 2020! Here we are at the end of this long year and at

Well, here we-entering the holidays as well as our 9th month of the pandemic in the USA. I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving or at

  “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” This is what CS Lewis wrote in his iconic book called A Grief Observed.

The rock spiral that I created near my house keeps getting messed up. Someone keeps fucking with it, and essentially fucking with me. And that’s

Well, actually, the world needs so much right now. And if I could I’d simply hold the world and begin to stitch it back together.

How stubborn hope helped me survive my partner’s tragic accident and how it could help you deal with 2020… It’s July. How’re you doing? I’m

I broke open yesterday with a tree. I learned that the construction project in our neighborhood will begin in 2 weeks. That’s the day that

What do I mean by that? Well, this situation we are currently living-this pandemic and having to be quarantined is too big to process, understand,

Well, I’ll tell you and while I tell you just get used to me writing about this a few times a year because I have

Welcome to 2020 everyone. And welcome to your next decade! And I want to say an especially warm welcome to my newest subscribers-welcome to the

One of the things I learned this past October from all my dives into grief with my mentors, Alan Wolfelt, Francis Weller and Malidoma Somé,

Here we are again in the holidays craze. These “holy-days” that are so hard if you’re in acute grief. My heart truly reaching towards yours.

October rocked me in a good way. It rocked me to my core and shuffled the foundation of how I work and how I am

A lot of pessimistic people treasure the phrase “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” We all know that’s not true. Everyone I know

Grief is so much more than death loss. So often when I’m introducing myself to others as the Grief Freak they often think that I’m

Dear ones… My grandma used to open her letters that way, been thinking about her a lot lately so maybe I will start using that

So I call myself the Grief Freak. What do I mean by that exactly? I have resurrected part of Part I of this from 2015, please

I have been feeling sad lately and couldn’t place why. As the Grief Freak I’m usually pretty good at figuring out the root cause of

When my life was suddenly turned upside down, I needed unconventional, and non-traditional ways to not only understand what had happened to me, but I

Ah vacations! So needed to keep the balance in check with our busy lives. In fact, right now I am preparing for a vacation myself-a

Well, a lot has happened since I last connected with all of you here. My hope is that I am reaching you with my writings/musings

Anniversaries are usually happy occasions as we often think of them with joyous events such as weddings and birthdays, right? But what about anniversaries that