Tag: death

• The Banana Counter

  I had a moment today. When I was in the Sobey’s in Spruce Grove, I realized, as I stood there in the bakery department, that I hadn’t been there since before my mom died. It was her local grocery store, and the one that she preferred. It was smaller and quieter than the other stores in…

  Corrie

  May 17, 2026

  Blog, Memories, Musings

  bananas, death, family, grief, grieving, healing, life, loss, love, Memories, mental health, mothers and daughters, Writing

• 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…

  Corrie

  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…

  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

• 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…

  Corrie

  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