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As you find yourself in betweenthis and thatthen and nowpast and futurehere and there,Know this: There is a certain peculiar joyin the in-betweenif you can release your death-grip on certainty. May you sense the beauty of timethat is both after the end and before the […]

It was rare that I went fishing with youSince you insisted on starting out while stars still poked through skyGlinting on the glassy lakeBefore being outshined by the sun Submerged in the spring-fed lakeSuddenly in my water-filled earsComes the soundlike a swarm of cicadas singing […]

My life seems so full of contradictions since Colin died, largely having to do with what I know now versus what I knew then. People talk all the time about losing their innocence, and I won’t pretend that I haven’t experienced death before, but not […]

I have such a hard time being. Just being. Just experiencing whatever is going on in the moment. I have, admittedly, strayed far, far away from my meditation practice. I think when I was regularly meditating and practicing yoga, I was able to “be” a […]

I left off yesterday’s post in the coney island after our morning of filming in the church. Today’s post picks up where we left off. After we finished our lunch, we headed back to our house. This was going to be the hard part: the […]

After attending the fourth screening of Transforming Loss this week, it occurred to me that I have never written about our filming experience. I’m going to break the story up into two parts because I don’t think I can boil this down into one blog […]

http://stillstandingmag.com/2013/03/self-care-significant-others/ I hope you’ll read (and enjoy!) my latest article on Still Standing. After re-reading it, I wanted to make an addition to point out that being a seemingly stoic caretaker in a time of deep grieving can be grieving in and of itself. Many people heal […]

I promised to post here more frequently, and I dropped the ball. And you know what? That’s okay. Here’s why. I had a few goals set for the past few months. One was to get my blog REALLY up and running, regular posts and all […]