On May 16, 2011, my dad (David) was in the emergency room for the umpteenth time. Since October 2010, he had made at least 3 visits to the ER, one of which resulted in his gallbladder removal and another in a 7-day stay at the inpatient psychiatric unit. On this day, he was in such […]

Grief comes in waves – for children and adults. One moment we may feel normal, or even happy….and the next moment we are sobbing into our cereal. This is normal for both children and adults. These grief waves often come and go much quicker for children than they do adults because their brains, emotions and […]

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 […]

We had a family friend who owned a flower shop, and because the winter was typically a slower time of year for work for my dad, he would volunteer to deliver flowers for her shop. (Secretly, I think it was also because she gave him a flower arrangement as a thank you and he always […]