Tomorrow’s Your Birthday, America!
I Still Love You. But It’s Time To Grow Up Now. Like all newborns, America, when you struggled into existence you were amazing and unique and full of promise. You Continue Reading →
Author: Jan M Flynn
The Loss We’re Not Prepared For
When An Adult Sibling DiesJ My husband and I sit before a crackling fire in the lobby of the old Mendocino Hotel. Outside, mist blurs the headlands as it drifts into Continue Reading →
Why I’m Crying On Vacation
It’s not the vacation. I’m having a wonderful time, visiting family while on a leisurely road trip through the Northwest. I get to see my beloved grandnieces and grandnephews, children Continue Reading →
How Mothers Time Travel
I’m on the phone with my older son when I get a call from my younger son’s fiancé. I mention this to my older son. “Weird,” he says, “she just Continue Reading →
My Brief On Grief
Five Things To DoWhen Someone Faces the Worst The end of this month will mark the 17th anniversary of the day Richard, my first husband, died. We’d been married 23 Continue Reading →