thoughts and rants

I know people mean well, and surely some of them truly believe, but when they try to console me with "She's still with you" or "She's watching you from Heaven" or wherever, it's another parry and twist of the cold steel knife in my heart. Few can know the anguish, the stark emptiness. Death's...

This work by Joan Didion has been recommended to me to help understand and deal with the grief of losing my own wife, which I sure need help with more than ever. I've heard this book was also made into a one-woman Broadway play. Has anyone read the book and/or seen the show? I'd be interested in...

I've heard about the traditional stages of grief, starting with shock, then denial and so on. But there's something new for me: I'm bitter as well as angry, very angry, as well as sad as I've been for quite some time now. Can anyone help me make sense of it? Why? Why was the love of my life...

. . . can lead a man to do stupid things. To anyone I've hurt or offended, I am truly sorry. Life is short.

How does one do it? How does one finally get over the untimely death of a cherished spouse and life partner? Does it ever even come close to happening? It's getting to be an all-too-vicious cycle: I think I'm finally doing O.K., life goes on, tomorrow is another day, gotta devote myself to...

Starting to feel better after losing Stacey, then I have to come across this. :(