This photo of three empty wine bottles is probably representative of my sentimental hoarding tendencies. Each of these bottles is...

I knew sorting through stuff and moving would be hard for me. I’ve probably underestimated how hard it is for other people. Our friends...

We have so.many.books. in our house. So many of those books bring back so.many.memories. We read a book to the kids every night from when...

Oh moving... it’s bad and hard at the best of times. We seemed to move a lot in the last 20 years within towns and around states. In the...

I feel sometimes that all I seem to do when I purge my brain out loud is lament how hard everything is. How bad it all seems. How hard I...

How do you put a quantifiable measurement around missing someone? Like - how can you explain just how much you miss them. Or what it's...

I’d love to put some context around why I spent the afternoon crying in gutteral sobs on my bed... hyperventilating and desperately and...

For something that doesn't seem to have a rule book, there is a lot of stuff out in the grief sphere that suggests what you should be...

I’ve discovered there is a particular type of loneliness that comes with widowing. It’s not necessarily an ‘I don’t want to be alone’...

I have adulted my way through a fraught week or 10 days. And I have come out the other end smiling. Laughing, in fact. It probably...

The last few weeks have been a challenging old roller coaster of ups and downs. I thought I was becoming adept at managing things and...

Year Two seems harder than Year One and I’ve been trying to work out why. People are very quick to say it’s ‘because people have...

I have the most frustrating reaction to stressful, anxious, highly emotional, over tired situations ... cold sores. Well, cold sore -...

The fact we own a giant cat that is Pete’s legacy cat means that all bets are off when it comes to paying to make sure it stays healthy....

Today marks 18 months since we lost Pete. It’s a weird day to think about. Every Sunday afternoon at about 4.26 I take a moment to...

So I recorded a podcast about widowing with Steph from Motherland Australia recently. It’s much less about the actual day that Pete died...

I do a ridiculous amount of worrying since becoming a widow about ‘The Right Thing’ For the most part that is about the kids. Am I...

The difficulties of the last couple of weeks have really been plaguing my brain. There have been many niggling things in my head that I...

There are many things you learn as part of this grieving process... laughing at ridiculously morbid things has been one of them. In the...

So... a couple of weeks ago I recorded a podcast. It’s now live. For someone with a dead husband, I seem to laugh a lot while recounting...