Tag Archives: Grief
Eloquent Speech for these Unfortunate Situations
I’ve reached the age when more and more people I care about are sick, ailing or dying. I’m sympathetic and want to offer words of comfort, but most of what I can think of to say is stilted, shallow and … Continue reading
Synchronized Swimming
“I want to spend the next 50 years with you,” Barry said on our third date. We had met in a water bed store: He was selling and I was buying. Over the beds, he said that he loved to … Continue reading
A Sweet Habit
I was single for 20 years. So, when my new husband started embracing me each night before falling asleep, I found the habit sweet but constricting. Then I remembered how my husband’s previous partner developed multiple myeloma. How he once … Continue reading
Peaches’ Last Message
Grandma Peaches always loved Valentine’s Day. In 2008, she enlisted two of her adult granddaughters, Rebecca and Judith, to help her craft handmade cards for all 21 of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Overcoming both frailty and dementia, Peaches sat … Continue reading
Grief
Transitions are often softer with hands that know how to hold us.
Real Life of an MSW 