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Apr.07.2013 A Year in Trees SOMEONE asked me the other day how I had gotten over the sudden death of someone I loved. What I wanted to say but found myself unable to explain (for it would have sounded too strange) was that I learned a good deal about moving through grief from some trees I once knew. They were not my trees...	Jun.07.2012 The Healing Power of Love: TRANSCENDING THE LOSS OF A SPOUSE TO NEW LOVE The Healing Power of Love: TRANSCENDING THE LOSS OF A SPOUSE TO NEW LOVE by Gloria Lintermans and Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. Available for the first time as an e-book at Amazon.com! THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE: Transcending the Loss of a Spouse to New Love is a collection of twelve...
Jun.07.2011 Suddenly Solo: I Was Widowed in My 40s Once a wife, now a widow. In my mid-40s, with two young children to raise, I was abruptly a woman with a broken heart, and a broken life. How do we measure loss? Against the size of the hole left in the heart, the space in the bed, the mail that comes to the house addressed to someone who...	Apr.12.2011 best thing I have found A penny from my late husband.
Jan.20.2011 Perpetuating Loss I’m trying not to dwell on the fact that a 9-year old girl, born on 9/11/01 was shot down in cold blood weekend before last. I hadn’t, until now ever thought of babies born on 9/11/01, moments of happiness on such a mournful day. I know I’m not the only one wondering what it all means. Perhaps...	Nov.08.2010 Stuff and Stuff I am not rich. I work long hours in a moderately paying profession and raise a child, alone, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yet I am drowning under house. I've started -- again -- to get rid of, minimize, distribute Bill's things. Some of this process of dismantling a life I did shortly after he...
May.26.2010 napping on a bed of arrows: loss, luck, & love, with guest appearance by Z-Cat & David Two years after a death, the "my deepest sympathies" are long over and done with; one is naturally expected to have gotten back to, or on with, normal life (though 'normal', as you knew it, ended with the doctor saying, "I'm sorry; we lost him.") But how else could it be? This...	Mar.11.2010 Performance schedule! I'm workshopping pieces of my solo show "A Widow's To-Do List" around town a lot in the next couple of months. These are all great shows, interesting line-ups, CHEAP, and a great way to see indie theater. Come see! I usually have access to discount tickets... so email me and I'll hook...
Jan.24.2009 Twenty-Five Things About Being a New Widow (A.K.A. the World's Saddest Meme.) The ever-awesome Gina Hyams not only tagged me for this "random things" meme, but suggested this variation specifically for me. It's been over three weeks since my husband died. I watched him die. I kissed him goodbye. I buried him. And I still don't...