by KimBoo York | Jul 20, 2015 | Grief, Mourning, Reflections
I had to call the landlord today about a possible water leak at the apartment. This simple act threw me into a long, dreary and painful panic attack. It is the absolute worst to be sitting on the bus, going to work, trying to count your breaths and not keel over like...
by KimBoo York | Jan 14, 2013 | Podcast
Wow, it’s been a while. For such a short book, it’s taking me forever to podcast it. #FAIL But here you go, the latest of it. This is the chapter “Myths and History” which was actually one of the very first things I wrote related to Grieving...
by KimBoo York | Dec 27, 2012 | Grief
It doesn’t matter how long ago we first started grieving, as children or adults, from a single catastrophic event or from multiple traumas, sometimes without any warning grief opens a door to feelings we locked away long ago. For me it has taken sixteen years...
by KimBoo York | Mar 19, 2012 | Mourning
This letter is something I wrote about three months after my father died. It’s hard for me to read this letter; I was 26 and I think both my youth and my naiveté are pretty obvious, as well as my grief. I’ve changed a lot in the years since then. But I...
by KimBoo York | Mar 12, 2012 | Reflections
We all want the Happy Ending, no matter how unlikely. I am still looking for it, and in the meantime, I own boxes and boxes of my parents’ keepsakes that I do not know what to do with. They were a unique sort of pack rats, keeping documents more than things, so...
