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By Sherrie Ann Cassel So, what do you do when you’re really happy? Things are going well. The sun is shining. Spring is almost here, and you made it through another angelversary, and even though you’ve lost someone you really love, your days are looking brighter, and your nights are calm. Sometimes we feel guiltyContinue reading “Spiraling Upward”

by Sherrie Ann Cassel After losing someone with whom you were very close, grief becomes your constant companion. You eat, breathe, and sleep with it. You’re always just a hair’s breadth away from the guttural feeling that can be awakened by a song, a scent, almost anything, and you never know when the grief willContinue reading “Random Thoughts on Grief”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel Punxsutawney Phil is my hero, and I’ll tell you why.  He mercifully did not see his shadow self on this palindromic Ground Hog Day, and so, we can look forward to an early spring. I trust the animal kingdom, as long as I am not prey. I’m thawing out, as itContinue reading “Grief as a Color”

By Sherrie Kolb-Cassel Grief is grief.  How many times have I heard this? How many times have I said those very words? Many. But as I carve out my own trajectory toward healing, I find that each of us expresses our grief in different ways and for many different reasons. For example, one may loseContinue reading “Healing: In no particular order”

By Sherrie Ann Kolb-Cassel I feel the chill of his giant gray t-shirt on my face as I inhale his scent, his cologne, his deodorant, the scent of his wine-flavored cigarillos — or maybe it is just my imagination. We are unpacking our garage, even though we’ve lived in our new house for over oneContinue reading “Unpacking”

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”