How I learned to live againLife was good as I was driving home on December 31, 2019. As I drove down my street I saw a fire truck behind me- not uncommon as we live close to the main fire station- and thought, “My gosh, someone’s New Year's Eve is not starting off well!” I was sending positive … [Read more...]
Life in Quarantine
These days my mind wanders often. It wanders to places from my childhood, to the feelings of warmth, safety and comfort. Spaces filled with love. The memories have been flooding me. The ones that have had no entry for decades.For the majority of the time, I feel strangely at peace in this … [Read more...]
What 10 Years of Grieving Have Taught Me
Tomorrow morning, at exactly 12:01, my first baby would have turned 10. Ten years feels both like a lifetime and yesterday all at the same time. Somewhere along the way, numbness and shock turned into surviving. Surviving into a dark sadness that sucked all the colour out of life. That sadness … [Read more...]
Grief Mask
My daughter in her Grief Girl mask. Her mask gives her as much solace and comfort as it does power. She takes it on and off, in need and when playing. It is a place for her, a place to create; a whole new person, a dance, images like this one. She has been grieving almost as long as I have, 3 days … [Read more...]
From Lost to Love & Hope
It all started when my son's father lost his dad, David. He lost his battle with lung cancer 6 weeks after being diagnosed. The day they put a port in him, he was given a dose of morphine and I watched his heart meter slowly but so fast go silent. My son Kyle, 16-years-old at the time, was … [Read more...]