It’s 9:30 am on my last Tuesday off of work. I’m sitting here on my couch, drinking coffee, my puppy spread out next to me, enjoying this last unstructured Tuesday morning. I’ve been working 30 hour weeks with Tuesdays off and shorter Fridays for a while, using Tuesdays as my Jonah and grief day. I do whatever I feel like I…
There’s no question that grief is hard. It takes everything you have just to be a human when you’re deep in grief. It’s physical, it’s mental, and it’s tough. The day that I was lying in my hospital bed waiting for my induction to help me push out my stillborn baby boy, Jonah, I made a decision. We had been…
Say what?! A post not about grief?! Don’t worry, it still relates 😉 A large hurdle for me in grief has been reliability – getting places on time, submitting blog posts and such on time, and just being organized in general. My grief has given me a lackadaisical attitude about a lot of mundane life details, because loss has shown me…
Published on Still Standing Magazine: How One Facebook Comment from a Stranger Shaped My Grief
September 1, 2017
In the very early days of my grief in January 2017, I started my blog, Letters to Jonah. At first, I used it only for writing letters to my stillborn son. It was my space for pouring my grief into, and everything I wrote was very personal, yet I felt the need for it to be public. I put my own…
