…not just any old work shoes, but hot pink sneakers with shiny silver stripes that peeked out from the bottom of her sensible khaki...

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From time to time, those whose grief is much newer than mine ask me hope-filled questions about what life is like on the other side of...

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Two weeks before Christmas I took about ten days off from work to enjoy my first real vacation in several years. Although I travel from...

I confess to being a bit of a perfectionist. Not the neurotic, obsessive-compulsive sort, but I’m easily derailed when the details of...

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In early December I was driving down the freeway and even though I was paying attention to traffic, I was fully aware that my mind was...