I was reading while lying on my back in bed. I had my computer propped up so that I didn’t have to hold it. My left hand rested gently on my chest while my right hand covered my left with my fingertips gently brushing my wrist as I breathed in and out. I had been […]
Whenever I watch a movie or read a book, it seems like one of the themes is grief. We all deal with loss at times throughout our lives, so having grief show up in books and movies is logical. Since dealing with and teaching about grief is a major part of my life, it’s also […]
Do you pay attention to your thinking? Letting your thoughts run wild is so easy to do. I just misspelled every word in the last sentence and had to go back to correct them. This caused a change of direction in my thoughts. I was thinking so quickly that my typing fingers couldn’t keep up. […]
“Grief is not the end of a story, Sometimes, it is the beginning of another.” Barry Hoffner I had two husbands, Jacques and Ron. Coincidentally, they both had congestive heart failure which led to kidney failure which led to dialysis which led to their deaths. I spent their last two years with each of […]
I have been living through the 100-year storm in Hawaii in March of 2026. I am grateful that I live up-country where a great drainage system is built-in, so we aren’t experiencing the landslides and flooding prevalent on much of the island. Many trees have blown down or have lost branches. As I watch out […]
I am enthralled with Lynne Twist’s book, Living a Committed Life. I first became acquainted with her work when I read The Soul of Money years ago. This book permanently changed my attitude toward money. I loved that book so much that I facilitated book group discussions about it and gave away so many copies […]
Did you know that there is so much you can do if you believe you can? So many times, we can sabotage the dreams we have by not believing in ourselves. This often happens while we are grieving because it may feel like our world is falling apart because nothing is the same. The good […]
Today there seems to be lots of bad or negative news circulating. Here is some good news for you to brighten your day! I get lots of very tasty apple bananas from my trees. What fresh fruit are you enjoying? My friend Michael Reed just published a book, The Owl and the Ladybug, a gentle, […]
In Barry Hoffman’s book, belonging to the World, he writes a poignant memoir of how he dealt with his grief caused by the death of his wife who was killed by an elephant in Africa. He wrote “Grief doesn’t vanish; it shifts. Eventually, it no longer dominates your thoughts, creating space for something new. That […]
Often after a loved one dies, it’s the ordinary moments we miss the most. I remember how my mother and sister loved to shop. When I would be visiting with one or both of them, we almost always ended up shopping. What was different shopping with them was they rarely bought anything. I used to […]
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