When my dad died in 2011, I searched high and low for anything to make my grief better. That is when I stumbled upon Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ “5 stages of grief’. Awesome….or so I thought. I bought the book and eagerly sat down to read it as fast as I could – except none of it […]

The idea of a “deathiversary” has been anything but foreign to me throughout most of my life. My grandfather died on September 24th, 1993, and for years after (and even to this day), my mom writes “Dad” on that date on the calendar. It is like an extra little reminder of the date of his […]