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Kevin died a year ago this past Tuesday. Today is the day his facebook friends found out he was gone. My feed is filled with grief today as ...

This morning I was looking at something on one of the social apps and a video started auto playing. It was a snippet of a podcast that the a...

Okay, so maybe that's not true. But we may never go home again is pretty accurate. Or we will most likely never go home again except to...

I am a ghost hunter. Wait, no that's not right. I am a ghost catcher. No, still not it... At the end of the month we will be going down ...

So here starts the really bad part of May.  Last Mother's Day was the first Mother's Day after my mom died. It was really hard. I wr...

Looking over my "On This Day" feed the past couple of days and May of last year has disappeared. I knew I had posts, I was doing t...

 I got the first reminder two weeks ago. Then another one this week, "Hurry before it's too late!" Brent got one this morning ...

It's weird.  That could sum up 2020 right?  Specifically I'm talking about going into our first Christmas since Ann died.  It's ...

We are past the first Thanksgiving without Ann. Marking the first holidays is usually really difficult. But this year it was... Odd. I think...

 A year ago we were getting ready to have Mom's funeral. We had pushed it off from when she died in August to give a few family members ...

We've made it to the end of the firsts. Which is always the worst.  We are three months in to the first year. It seems so much longer.  ...

 Having kittens is exhausting.  Four AM wake up this morning the first time. I got them settled back down and asleep again after about 45 mi...

The Estate sale was this past weekend and it went well. They've cleared everything out of the house and taken care of all of that. Tomor...

There really isn't a way to keep the Corona Chronicles and the Grief Chronicles separate right now. We are heading into the fifth mont...

They would press their hands into hers, trying to make meaningful eye contact. "Oh I am so sorry..." some of them would start, som...

It's Mom's birthday. It's the anniversary of Dad's death. I found a way to make those blend better in my head when Mom die...

Driving down the freeway in New Mexico last week... "I know it's awful to say, and I wish I didn't feel this way, but I'm...

We are back home. At least for awhile. We took care of what we could in New Mexico and hit the hurry up and wait wall. We need a death certi...

When I wrote the blog yesterday talking about mourning I had no idea what was still to come. As most of you know we got the call last nigh...

It's been a rough weekend for sure. I wrote the latest installment of the grief chronicles on Friday and thought, well whew, made it t...