Tag: grief
Watching Her Sun Set
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(Originally published on Motherless Mom, July 6, 2019) I wanted to write about shedding old identities and went to Google “molting,” the process of snakes shedding their old skin as they grew, but accidentally typed “mottling” instead. Google very quickly corrected me with the top links from hospice and palliative…
Mother’s Day for a Motherless Mom
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(Originally published on Motherless Mom, May 12, 2019) When you’ve lost your mother, Mother’s Day takes on a new dimension. Before I became a mother myself, it was a day solely dedicated to wallowing in my heartbreak and extreme emotional distress. I would buy a bottle of Dewar’s scotch and…