Motherless Daughters

From the diary... April 27th, 2018 It crossed my mind today how difficult it must have been for my mother to tell her children that she was going to die soon. And it occurred to me what it must have been like from her perspective to know she wouldn’t get to know her children much...

Aftermath: Chester Bennington Suicide

Disclosure: Sensitive content about suicide, read at your own discretion. I may not have anything smart to say about suicide, as awful a thing as it can be, the tributes coming in too late, as if only if that outpour of support and love was there before, maybe, just maybe, something would have gone different. I...

The Aftermath: Manchester

"Police say 22 people have died, with 59 injured, in a suicide attack at Manchester Arena [at an Ariana Grande Concert]." Grande was not one of the women I was considering writing about for my WEW feature, but I will be following what she does closely in the aftermath, and hopefully reporting back. As I...

A Thought on Mourning Pt. Deuce

So some of you may have noticed I was visibly absent from the #BellLetsTalk discussion. There is a simple explanation to this: I was helping a friend in need and away from any and all social media for a few days. But I don't think the discussion should start and end on this one day...

A Thought on Mourning Pt. The First

I have a hard time writing this one, because two people are in a relationship, and even when that relationship ends, there is only one of them left writing this blog. We are so intertwined, even when we are apart. The identity might become clear of who this mystery man is for those of you...

Tragedy Porn

This summer I began tearing through the plethora of books I own by female comedians and authors I stocked up on last Spring. In her book 'Yes Please', Amy Poelher brought a name to a concept so familiar to me I’ve added it to my vocabulary. Tragedy porn. You know when a tragic thing happens,...

September, already; moving on and looking back.

This year, in November, will mark 10 years since my mum died of breast cancer. On September 7th my family will be celebrating what would have been her 65th birthday, our 10th without her. I was devastated when she died. I literally collapsed in the palliative care unit of the hospital. She had gone in...