Tag: death

• One month…

  I am not usually one to commiserate things like loss. When something is done, it is done and I try to move forward. While I celebrate birthdays and wedding anniversaries, once you’ve past childhood, only major milestones are really celebrated, and at that, only with the smallest of fanfare. We had a small party for…

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  December 23, 2025

  Blog, depression, Memories

  death, family, grief, life, loss, love, Memories, mental health, mother-daughter, mothers, 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…

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  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

• Dear Gramma…

  I miss you. Death is unfair and while I know you lived a long life, in my mind, it wasn’t long enough. The world had you for eighty years, I only had you for nineteen. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye. I wasn’t ready to not have you in my world. I wasn’t ready. But…

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  December 28, 2024

  Memories, Musings

  after life, aging, death, family, Gramma, Gramma knows best, grandparents, life, life after death, love, Memories, Musings, one more day, Writing