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By Sherrie Ann Kolb-Cassel You never think it will be your kid who will die from the consequences of substance use disorder, alcoholism, opioids, fentanyl, addiction. You can’t fathom death even though your child is hemorrhaging in his legs, he is gasping for air, and he has completely lost his ability to fight for hisContinue reading “Evening at the Improv”

My First People Warrior…my Aztecan Prince.  

By Sherrie Ann Kolb-Cassel Google Images, artist unknown, 2020 Working the grief process is like finding your way through a labyrinth and getting lost along the way from time to time. I find myself returning to places I’ve been before – pain, longing, utter sadness – and I stay there for a while trying toContinue reading “Trainwreck”

By Sherrie Ann Kolb-Cassel Dedicated to Rikki Kolb I want to send my heart up to the heavens in a paper lantern, with the flame burning brightly, fantastic and lovely, but isn’t fire beautiful, like your funeral pyre, a ritual for warriors, warriors who fought for their lives against the enemy but lost? I wantContinue reading “Paper Lantern”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel     As I’m navigating this wild phenomenon called grief – I sometimes reach forks in the road for which there can be only one choice as I make my way forward. Sometimes I reach dead ends, and sometimes, mercifully, I reach a space where I don’t have to exert myself,Continue reading “Reentry”