So many of the songs we hear around Christmas time are cheery. From the secular “Holly Jolly Christmas” to the classic “Joy to the World”, most of the carols are…
Tag: <span>grief</span>
I’m sitting at my desk at work for the last time. The room is bare and empty. It’s dark because the lights are on a motion sensor, and I—the only…
The first few months of this year have been hard. I didn’t expect it. I thought the hardest part would be at the beginning, when I was still reeling from…
I wrote Part 1 six weeks after we moved; you can read that post here. Six months ago, my sister and I left our home in Nicaragua and moved 4,000 miles away. The decision to move was a sudden one, and in many ways…