Then lunch time will come, but you won't feel like eating. You will instead feel like turning off all the lights and burying your face in a pillow for an hour, not for a real nap, but just to turn everything off.
death
books
Don’t put these on your to-read list and stare at the titles thoughtfully every now and then. Go out and obtain them, and then read them.
animal death
My dead cat is more popular than cancer, but he deserves it.
adoption
When it’s been emotionally or financially taxing, I’ve still felt nothing but extraordinarily fortunate to share my home with such wonderful friends.
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Relationships,
adoption,
animal death,
animals,
cats,
depression,
finding the hope in the sadness,
grief,
grieving,
loss,
pets,
rescue pets,
senior pets
May 8, 2012 at 11:00am | 86 comments
death
Unfortunately, I don’t have a magical secret to healing. I wish I did. Still, what I can do is let you know what I’ve learned since 2002.
pregnancy
After struggling to get pregnant, I had to have a misplaced pregnancy surgically removed. When looking for comfort, I found reasons to be angry, and reasons to be persistent.
ihtm contest
Local gossip mongers flooded message boards to debate my father’s character. He was a weirdo and a creep, they claimed, always driving around in his van checking out children.
death
I was still recovering from the mixed emotions of seeing my boyfriend for the first time in months combined with reverse culture shock, but all of those distractions went out the window when I saw his mother lying comatose in the hospital bed.
death
Probably the most disconcerting thing about Greg’s death was how fast I was expected to recover from it. Because, after all, he was “just a boyfriend.”
