Remember Me As a Flower

June 4, 2016 was the day.  Today is a big day, an important day (to me), and one of the hardest days of the year. It’s the 5th anniversary of my daughter Chelsi Ann Ichrist’s suicide. Try as I might, I’m not able to wrangle my thoughts and feelings...

Grief-ism

Grief-ism (greef-izum) Grief-ism is a word I use to describe the many odd, strange, weird and seemingly unreasonable, irrational things that bereaved mothers do.  I needed to give it a name.  People might question or judge a bereaved mother as being emotionally or...