Patience & Fortitude

Welcome to the new blog!

If you typed in your usual address for “A Year of Living Dangerously” and ended up here, don’t worry. I planned it that way. I’ve relaunched the blog because I felt that the original direction I was headed was not working for me anymore as a...

Breaking out…but not yet.

I thought that when I was taking care of my parents as they died that I was in chrysalis. It felt like the right metaphor for the time: isolated and encapsulated by my own grief and my parents’ fears and pain, I was changing radically as a person. I was in...

Sum of grief

Yesterday was the first day of classes, and in one class a professor sidelined into the “text” of memorial markers such as gravestones and road-side markers (yes, these are the kinds of classes I take). She expressed her dumbfounded amazement at the...

Changes on the Horizon

I started this blog with a very vague idea of it being, mostly, a platform for my book Grieving Futures. Then I started graduate school, my ex-husband moved out of the house, I changed many aspects of my lifestyle (food, exercise, haircut!), lost my car, became a...