By Sherrie Cassel Dedicated to the Esperon Family The world would be silent, but “American Pie” is playing on my phone and I’m grateful for the noise. I’m listening as Don McLean sings about the spirit of my generation. I think about how Lennon read a book on Marx and how when someone is inContinue reading “Rationalizing until the Cows Come Home”
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Busking Joy
By Sherrie Cassel There’s too much racket – here. The swamp cooler whirs. The cats meow their grand entrance on the scene, and the goddamned crows caw, interrupting my reverie. It’s just too damn loud this morning, In my head. Sometimes I need the noise; it drowns out the screams of a grieving mother, notContinue reading “Busking Joy”
Naked
By Sherrie Cassel I like days when the mask is not required.No Joker’s smile.No laugh, clown, laugh –despite the depth of the painI carry daily. I feel it through the liquor and throughthe laughter, and when I’m not requiredto be on display, the wounded warrior,the purple hearted mother…is survivingthe war, barely. My smile is notContinue reading “Naked”
Art with Street Cred
Please check out this artist’s stellar work. I’m tres moved by the eye of THIS beholder. https://www.bobstevens.com/ABOUT/1
After the Storm
by Sherrie Cassel This group has been my baby for nine years. Nine and a half years ago I lost my beautiful and tortured son. I look back at the wrecked person I was then. I remember not being able to get up off the couch. I didn’t have to return to work right away,Continue reading “After the Storm”
Busy is the Operative Word
By Sherrie Cassel I’m having a tough time today. Grief is unpredictable. I’ve been on the fast track for four years. I have leisure time I haven’t had in FOUR YEARS. I’ve been reading, visiting with cherished loved ones, writing, living, loving, laughing – and today, the world returns to my normal, another second, minute,Continue reading “Busy is the Operative Word”
Complicated Grief: The Tip of the Iceberg
By Sherrie Cassel I want to share resources I find beneficial with my readers, and with those who accidentally find my page. I’m taking a little time off before I hit the academic trajectory toward a doctorate. I’m taking time for self-reflection and relaxation; it’s been a long four years! This book, which I’ve sharedContinue reading “Complicated Grief: The Tip of the Iceberg”
Unmuting the Muse
By Sherrie Cassel In The Artist’s Way, the author recommends writing three pages a day, or painting, or singing, or going on a meditative walk with yourself. I know for those of us who are really bad at self-care, trying any of these exercises is excruciatingly difficult, and our self-care is neglected to the pointContinue reading “Unmuting the Muse”
Trippin’
By Sherrie Cassel Trippin’ By Sherrie Cassel May 20, 2025, graduation day, a hard-earned day, a lifetime of stories and struggles, and here it was, the big day. I had worked decades to be there among Ph.D. graduates and other Masters graduates. We were a small graduating class at our seminary. There were twenty-two totalContinue reading “Trippin’”
Grief to Gratitude 