When you lose someone you love

When you lose someone you love

When I became a widow at 22, I didn’t know how to grieve. I didn’t know what to do with the feelings of sadness, or the shock and disbelief that the man I loved and had just married only 6 weeks earlier was now gone. I knew when we got married that he was dying, but I...
Embracing solitude

Embracing solitude

I have had a love-hate relationship with solitude for most of my life. When I was a child, we lived in (very) rural New Brunswick, down a long laneway in a small red bungalow surrounded by maple and birch trees. I loved the privacy of where we lived, the freedom to...