Exploring the Universe

One day at a time, from the innermost to the outermost. I'm just a woman in my late 30's trying to figure things out.

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Category: Journal

  • Fire, water, and grief: A story about the loss of my dad

    If you haven’t experienced grief, it can sometimes feel like an object on fire – too hot to touch, and too bright to look at. My mom’s death, which happened only 3 years ago, still feels molten, like glowing metal freshly pulled out of the forge. When it comes into my field of vision, I…

  • In my last post, Why Are We Here, I mentioned my revelation that as things calm down for me post-divorce and ten thousand other life changes, I begin to realize that I may not even know what “the dust has settled” looks like. In the chaos of the last 10 years, I may have grown…