Every culture has traditions and rituals when someone dies, such as funerals, memorials, and gravestones. In a sense, we have a structure on how to grieve. But some losses in life are ambiguous. We...
Category: My Life
Are you discouraged about the changes you hoped to make in the new year? Are you disappointed that you haven't been more consistent, that you're only seeing minimal results? That mammoth efforts...
Four Things I Learned in 10 Years as a Bookseller A woman walks into our bookstore. She's looking for a book on grief for a friend who just lost her husband. I direct her to our small collection...
Mosaic art is made of tiny pieces arranged to be pleasing to the eye. The artist chooses which pieces he wants to include. It's the vision of the artist and the choice of the pieces and the...
"I grew up transient, with change as my constant. I lived a privileged life in many ways, and benefited from a plethora of experiences denied many of my more settled peers. In fact, I felt competent...
I was not aware of the concept of frozen grief until I stumbled across an article by Marilyn Gardner of Communicating Across Boundaries. All of a sudden pieces of the puzzle started falling into...