When You Feel Guilty for Having a Good Day
Today’s guest post is from Brenda Lee. This post was written on November 11th, 2008 … two weeks after her husband’s death. ***** Brenda Lee I kind of feel guilty saying this, but overall, today was a...
View ArticleHow to Speak the Language of Grief
You walk into a house full of fresh grief. It’s fresh because the death just occurred. Your best friend’s husband went out to the bar last night, drowned his hard day in hard drink and he never made...
View ArticleA Dinosaur’s Smile
Having just arrived to work, I walk into the office and found a paper tablet with the inscription, “So-and-so is at the Brandywine Hospital. Released. Coroners Case. Autopsy.” I loaded the pickup...
View ArticleAl’s Soul Is in that Damned Bird!
Photo by Hans Splinter My phone rang early in the morning, waking me up to the sound of the coroner on the other end explaining Al Johnson was dead in the second story bathroom and Mr. Johnson’s family...
View ArticleThey died from a broken heart
They died from broken hearts. — To the skeptic, “died from a broken heart” is a romanticized line from a fictional fairytale. It’s impossible, they might say, to determine if emotional grief was THE...
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