Tag: loss

  • On Grief and Love

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    It’s no secret that I’ve been walking through a grief journey these past three and a half months. Some days feel easy (if that’s even the right word), and other days are so incredibly difficult. This past Sunday, I was a bridesmaid in a dear friend’s wedding. She asked me to be apart of her…

  • On Grief and Remembering

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    It was a year ago today that my boyfriend Greg and I spent time together for the first time. Call it a first date. Call it whatever. We met at the gym for a leg workout, and thank God too, because that’s the only muscle group I feel that I can exercise with any real…

  • Something Good is Coming

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    I cried over some placemats a few weeks ago. Sixteen placemats, to be exact. Sixteen placemats that are sitting on the shelf of my linen closet, their future not as sure as it once was. Before you think I’m completely materialistic, let me explain. I bought these sixteen red-and-black buffalo plaid placemats at an after…

  • On Losing My Stepdad in February

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    Grief is a funny thing. One minute you are fine. The next, you are walking room to room in your empty childhood home, sobbing. Not just sobbing. Silent tears streaming down your cheeks. Loud wails that come out of your without your permission in a way that you think you might split in two. Your…