You Remind Me: People who remind us of our loved ones
Last night I watched ABC’s special “The Untold Story of ‘The Sound of Music.’” I stopped on the special because I thought it would be a harmless and happy break from the murder and deception of HBO’s,...
View ArticleHonoring and Remembering During Awareness Days, Weeks and Months
With only 12 months in a year I am sure there are approximately 1,763 awareness months kicking off today (give or take). So many causes, so little time. But there is one that is near and dear to us...
View ArticleSharing Memories on Mother’s Day
Last year around Mother’s Day I read an article that has really stuck with me called Dear Kids by John Dickerson. In the article the Dickerson urges mother’s to write letters, theoretically for their...
View ArticleAnd Many More: Celebrating a Deceased Loved One’s Birthday
My family goes a bit overboard with the Happy Birthday song. For starters, there are a lot of us so that means anywhere from 4 to about 20 voices depending on who’s present. Also, everyone can sing...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Doll Collector: Sentimentality & Holding Onto Items
This is my doll collection. For those of you who don’t know me, I am not meant to have a doll collection. I mean, just look at how dusty and slouchy those poor dolls are! It’s as though they’ve been...
View ArticleHow Do I Use A Belt Sander & Other Questions For My (Dead) Dad
You love someone who’s died, right? I mean, if you read or follow What’s Your Grief that seems like a safe assumption. Whoever that person is who died – your mom, son, daughter, father, grandparent,...
View ArticleGrief Is More Than Sadness
There are a lot of things we love about writing a grief blog, but if I had to pick one of my favorite things about the work we do it is meeting new grief friends – lots of new, fabulous grief friends....
View ArticleThe Moments that Matter: Looking at life in hindsight
I didn’t have a meaningful moment with my mother before she died. Well, that’s not true, my life with her was filled with meaningful moments. I guess what I mean is that I never had the Hollywood...
View ArticleHelp us keep What’s Your Grief going
Dear Grief Friends, Today is our blogiversary. It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since we posted our very first article on What’s Your Grief. Back then we were averaging about 27 page-views a...
View ArticleWe Remember in 2016: Reader Remembrance Gallery
Litsa and I thought about writing an obligatory New Years post. Maybe ‘Top ten posts to motivate you in 2017‘ or ‘WYG’s most popular posts of 2016’ or something like that. We thought about it, we...
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