Recently I read the novel, Go Set A Watchman, by Harper Lee. When the book first came out a couple years ago, I was excited to read it, but then I started reading reviews in which people expressed their disappointment in it. I ended up not reading it partly because I didn’t want to be …
Family
It’s been nine years since my mother died from metastatic breast cancer. She was diagnosed with early stage, ER+ breast cancer in 2004. Her cancer metastasized to her liver and probably her bones, too, in 2007. She died a few months later on March 6, 2008. Statistics say, following a metastatic diagnosis, the median survival …
February has rolled around again, and with it comes another birthday. However, this February is not just any old February, and my birthday this year is not just another birthday. This birthday feels different because it is different. You see, this is my first one without a mother and without a dad. I am not …
Many people couldn’t wait to say goodbye to 2016. It was a rough year for various reasons, and I kept reading and hearing how lots of people could not wait to move forward into the New Year. Bring on 2017, they said and wrote. 2016 was hard. Too many losses. Too much heartache. Just too much.
Here we are about to close out another year. How do you feel about saying goodbye to 2016 in just a few days? It was a difficult year for me because as many of you know, my dad died in July. At times I still feel quite lost. There were also many joyful moments this …