Keep in mind. (For the family of Lisa Adams)
Lisa Bonchek Adams lived her experience of illness On the web and in the blogosphere On Twitter In essays In poems Out loud On her own...
Thank you, Lisa Bonchek Adams
Readers of the cancer blog I kept before I needed to add grief to the mix -- No defeat baby, no surrender -- may recall my response to...
Hijacked
One morning last week I woke up angry and with a headache, the kind that seems to live both inside and outside of your skull, enveloping...
Rethinking "I can't"
I’ve always hated to say “I can’t.” Almost as much as I hate for it to be true. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been determined to do...
Looking for a message in a dream
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable. It does not conceal, it teaches. ~ Carl Jung For years, I have heard about the...
The alone you want, and the alone you don't
Those of you who know me personally know how energized I am by my interactions with other people in any type of situation, professional...
You don't have to get grief right.
Perhaps we humans are getting a little closer to the understanding that grief is nonlinear, unpredictable, and unique to each individual...
Two inspiring stories and a confession
First, two true stories. One is about my great-grandmother, my father’s paternal grandmother, who lived with my father and his parents...