Dear Widow – Tips on How NOT to Grieve

This is the fourth blog in the Life After Loss Sept 2017 blog series: Updated Oct 5th, 2017    Dear Widow – A Few Unfiltered Tips on How NOT to Grieve “Don’t pretend you’re OK, when it feels as if your heart has been ripped from your body but you’re not lucky enough to die along with … Read more

What Happens in Vegas…

  Sometimes What Happens in Vegas Need Not Stay in Vegas   “The emotional bond between Las Vegas and its customers was freedom…to do things, see things, eat things, wear things, feel things. In short, the freedom to be someone we couldn’t be at home. And freedom from whatever we wanted to leave behind in our daily … Read more

Does Time Heal All Wounds?

  Does Time Heal All Wounds?      Fifteen years ago – Wed Sept 30th, 2000 – I awoke to my first day as a young widow. Here’s a short passage from my book, A Widow’s Awakening, explaining the experience: All I feel is excruciating emotional pain and sheer terror. There’s a knock at my … Read more