There’s something surreal about how normal life continues after someone dies. You still have to make dinner, answer emails, and take out the trash. It feels almost offensive that the world doesn’t stop. But what if those ordinary moments weren’t distractions from grief but part of it?
Finding dimes in strange places after someone dies is actually quite common. In July of 2010, we lost Pete’s mom, Joan, not unexpectedly, but still rather suddenly. In the shock of the next few days, a family friend, Jill, whom Joan had treated as a daughter, was very distraught as ...
Or how a dinner with friends could be cancelled after you’d put on your heels because the sitter was having car trouble and you had no one else to watch the baby? Well, one day, your cherubs will likely be able to stay home. Alone. Without maiming one another or burning the house...
Healing Your Traumatized Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death (Healing a Grieving Heart series) [Paperback] In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: #include virtual="/journals/includes/copyright/fge2003_bnr.htinc" Fourth Genre...
Thus, I will argue, ultimately there is no deep opposition between the probabilistic and the narrative approach. It's just that the probabilistic models put forward so far have been too simplistic. The goal of the paper is to develop a probabilistic model rich enough to capture the aspects ...
“I think you will be able to go home today.” “Good. I don’t like it here.” Every night, when visiting hours ended, I dreaded having to leave him and most nights ended in tears — his and mine. Today, after two weeks,...
there is always a feeling of fulfillment. Some of the activities are simply: –to give hope to a “hopeless situation”. Anything that looks impossible or has been written off, I like to find a way to give it meaning as long as someone still has an interest in it –I like to find ...
Michels dug back into his formative years as a young jazz head, listening to a lot of Cannonball Adderley and Thelonious Monk while making Yeti Season because, as he says, “I couldn’t focus on what someone else was saying when all this other shit was going on.” He was looking for ...
He finds Dory swimming confusedly under a buoy, saying that she's lost someone but can't remember. Nemo offers to search with her, and Dory happily complies, though she doesn't recognize him. As they swim together, Dory comes upon a piece of piping and reads "Sydney" on it. Suddenly,...
I’m a homebody. Doug is my home. His stuff is still out. It’s not bothering anyone. If it was bothering someone, I would just tell that person to leave. The runways are still down. Those will be the hardest for me. I worry taking them up suggests they were in the way. But ...