MARY BACON

You can get a passport in one day in NYC; it is possible. On this day at 8 am, I stood in line with other anxious souls outside the US...

“You know, you can go ahead and climb up on that table with him if you want.” Lauren  nodded towards Andrew on his unforgiving hospital...

On Sunday I did what a year ago, I’d never imagine myself capable. And two years ago-NO WAY- it’d never crossed my deepest subconscious...

3/26/2023 Today, Andy was born 55 years ago. Gosh. A year ago, at this time, I scattered his ashes in a river, just two months after his...

This year I couldn’t get a Christmas Card with news - or even a photo- together. First year without Andrew grinning widely, holding Oreo....

“...what constitutes a meaningful life has very likely been changed by your recent close acquaintance with mortality. Death has a brutal...

Did you know grief is work? That's really interesting I think. That to grieve takes your participation, it doesn't just happen to you. I...

“There are no shortcuts to healing grief, the only way out is through. It takes embracing all the thoughts as they come along." All the...

I looked up grief buttons the other day. I think I needed something akin to the old-timey black armband or widows’ weeds. The exhaustion...

That's cool. Changing alignment on a page From right to left instead of left to right as I type- God. It's exactly how I feel. I think,...

5/13 Came up to the house we made ours 13 years ago. I woke up to mist across the river-it’s blanketing Peter and Beth’s field-stumbled...

So many thoughts. Andrew’s absence is sinking in slowly, drip by drip, moment by moment, into my blood, into my waking and sleeping. I do...