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By Sherrie Ann Cassel In the high desert, where my husband and I live, the winters are cold for this San Diego girl. Yesterday we had frost, no snow – yet. I remember the first time I went out in the cold. I like to shop early before the rest of the world gets up.Continue reading “Bittersweet Self-Care”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel Holidays are upon us. I don’t count Halloween as the festivity that kicks off the holidays, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. January 22, 2023 will be the seven year anniversary of my son’s death. I get a catch in my throat and my eyes well up for a brief moment,Continue reading “Tidbits of Holiday Clarity”

By Sherrie Cassel Grief is odd; it can invoke tremendous rage and then just when the rage subsides, it is replaced with intense sorrow, deep in the viscera. Sometimes grief is existential, and sometimes, it is surface, and your skin feels raw, and your heart skips that beat meant uniquely for the loved one youContinue reading “Benevolent Anomalies”

By Sherrie Cassel I got up this morning, day two of a three-day weekend, for me, and turned on my computer and perused Facebook (I’m still on a news fast). I was listening to Led Zeppelin and thought about my son. He always told me he hated Zeppelin, but when he moved out, the firstContinue reading “The Absence of Presence and Gratitude”

by Sherrie Ann Cassel I hope you’re all healing a little every day, and for those of you who are making leaps and bounds in your process, please share here or with others your Light in the face of supreme grief over the loss of your loved one(s). Rumi said, “If everything around seems dark,Continue reading “Move over, Grief; Joy is back in town”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel There was a time when grief was the singular focus for me. I pored through books about grief and how to survive it. I pored through sacred texts trying to find the answer that would pivot me back into the living. I read about how deep emotional pain can feel physical,Continue reading “Title Fight”

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By Sherrie Cassel People tell me I exude joy and contribute to our world’s collective aching heart, a positive worldview (on most days). I used to blurt out to anyone even if he or she were talking about something not even remotely related to the death of one’s child, “I lost my son to heroinContinue reading “A Stitch in Time”