The Guilt Free Life

The other day I chose to miss work.  I have weeks and weeks of unused vacation time, so it wasn’t like I was playing hooky exactly…but I wasn’t sick and I should have been at work.  But it was a Thursday, mid-week when sales lag and the workload is lighter, and I was so burnt [...]

A friend of mine did something pretty wrong yesterday. No need to elaborate here, but let’s just say that in the scheme of things, for those of us that believe that what goes around comes around, she’ll be due a whammy of a blow sometime in the future for the potential pain she could [...]

For someone who writes about loss, I sure do have a lot of experience with it. Today, my first book was published. Although I am ecstatic to be over the first hurdle that writers encounter, I feel a slight sense of dread nonetheless. It isn’t even listed in Amazon yet, but [...]

I recently planned a trip to Haiti to visit my boyfriend’s family. He is an exotic hunk of a man, and what better way to learn about his past life than to impose on his relatives.
When I told people I was going to Haiti, I received one of two responses:
1. Wow! How [...]

This blog is dedicated to those who suffer in their everyday lives from loss:

Death
Illness
Lack of Mobility
Unemployment
Divorce
Depression
Loneliness

Loss can be defined in many ways, and the threshold of pain is different for each of us. As for me, I have dealt with large amounts of loss in recent years. My suffering has been replaced with [...]