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Dispatches From Bereavement Leave (opens the original)
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My grandma died a couple weeks ago. In my last post, For 45 Years, I Had a Grandparent, I wrote about the time between when my grandma went on hospice and when she died. Today I am sharing dispatches from my five days of bereavement leave.Bereavement leave has given me the opportunity to move through the fresh grief that follows the death of a loved one, without having to worry about work.Everyone grieves differently. Writing this post is part of my grieving process. <span style="color: rgb(14,
For 45 Years, I Had a Grandparent (opens the original)
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I Think You’ll Like This (August 2026) (opens the original)
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One Moment in the Giant Eagle Parking Lot Changed My Life Forever (opens the original)
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My life changed forever in the Giant Eagle parking lot in Erie, PA on a mild spring day in 2003. My friend and I got into my car and I noticed a new voicemail on my Nokia cell phone. The message was from the chair of the creative writing program at the University of Minnesota, telling me I had been accepted into the MFA program. I sat in my 2000 Plymouth Neon, speechless, as I processed what this meant. My friend congratulated me, and I then called or emailed everyone I knew to tell them the new
5 Myths About Death I No Longer Believe (opens the original)
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