How I Lost My Mom and Gained the World
I lost my mom 3 years ago, as a sophomore in college, to a form of breast and stomach cancer that had metastasized throughout her body. Now now, before you grab your tissue box or turn away because you think this is about to get depressing, think again. This was a very trying time in […]
Just Keep Swimming: Grief Advice from Finding Nemo
July 25th marks four years since my brother died at the age of 35. It was an acute illness: he went into the hospital on Thursday and died Monday evening. My grief was all-encompassing. As I wrote in a personal blog, “I was so angry at the medical personnel in the hospital whose lives were […]
