Tag: cancer

• What’s in a Name?

  I saw it today. Printed in black on the sepia paper and it glared at me. I tried to force myself to look at it and my breath caught in my throat. I always loved her name, but seeing it printed there, on that terrible textured paper, my name emblazoned across the top, was like…

  Corrie

  August 5, 2026

  Blog, depression, Musings

  cancer, death, family, grief, life, loss, love, missing you, Mothers & Daughters, Writing

• The day my mother died…

  No, this isn’t the song about The Day the Music Died, although she liked that song & she liked Buddy Holly. She did sport a beehive and had black rimmed cat glasses at one point in time (I’ll get the pictures and share them at a later date), she was in her late seventies, she…

  Corrie

  November 27, 2025

  Blog, depression, gratitude, Memories

  cancer, death, dying, family, gratitude, grief, health, life, love, Memories, mother-daughter, mothers, University of Alberta Hospital, Writing