I get asked this question a lot. “How do you tell the difference between sadness, grief and depression?” Andrew Solomon speaks in his eloquent and spot-on Ted Talk, “Depression: The Secret We Share.” “People think of depression as being just sadness. It’s much, much too much sadness, much too much grief at far too slight …
As we get older and our parents pass away, Mother’s Day can be bittersweet, as Denise Thomas explains. Visit Denise’s blog, Call the Midlife. I am blessed to be a mother. I have two delightful, kind, healthy children. But every year, around this time, I begin to dread Mother’s Day. Only my family and …
Forty seven years and six days after we spoke our wedding vows; we were forever parted by death. In the middle of an August afternoon, my husband laid down for a nap and never woke up. He is on the “Blue Side of Heaven” now……as Alan Jackson sings…..telling everyone about me and hugging our loved ones who …