Patience & Fortitude

Planning for the end…badly

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Reflections

I have absolutely no idea how I stumbled over the Secular Celebrations & Humanist Ceremonies website, but I did. It is open on a tab in my browser and I have no idea why, but maybe that’s a good thing. I remember planning for my mother’s funeral, which was held in...

Grief is not a Thief

by | Feb 19, 2013 | Grief, Mourning

I don’t think it is true that grief “steals our happiness.” Grief is not a thief; if we want to get all literary we could say that “Death is a thief” but grief? No, grief steals nothing from us. It simply settles over our bones like a...

An Atheist non-perspective on Religion

by | Feb 12, 2013 | Atheism, Grief, Mourning

This post is not about grief, but it is something that has been on my mind for a while now. I want to talk about my perspective in writing this blog, and where it comes from, and why it’s different from most skeptic’s blogs out there, and how (maybe) that...

The Troy Syndrome

by | Feb 1, 2013 | Grief, Reflections

Over at Planet Grief, Helen Bailey wrote an evocative and emotional post, Life, Death and Laundry, about post-death hoarding. She talks about keeping things long past their “due date” and her unwillingness to wash the bedsheets she had once shared with her...