October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, and October 15h is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day. If you’re reading this and you’re not a loss parent, I want you to know that I am so glad to have you in my life, whether you’re an Internet friend or an in-person friend. You, friend, clicked on this post even…
It’s 9:30 am on my last Tuesday off of work. I’m sitting here on my couch, drinking coffee, my puppy spread out next to me, enjoying this last unstructured Tuesday morning. I’ve been working 30 hour weeks with Tuesdays...
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There’s no question that grief is hard. It takes everything you have just to be a human when you’re deep in grief. It’s physical, it’s mental, and it’s tough. The day that I was lying in my hospital bed waiting for my...
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Say what?! A post not about grief?! Don’t worry, it still relates 😉 A large hurdle for me in grief has been reliability – getting places on time, submitting blog posts and such on time, and just being organized in...
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Published on Still Standing Magazine: How One Facebook Comment from a Stranger Shaped My Grief
September 1, 2017In the very early days of my grief in January 2017, I started my blog, Letters to Jonah. At first, I used it only for writing letters to my stillborn son. It was my space for pouring my grief into, and everything I wrote was very...
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I found out I was pregnant with Jonah in the last couple days of July, 2016. That means we’re entering Jonah season. At this time last year, I was battling daily nausea, unable to eat much besides buttered noodles, corn chips...
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My Dearest Jonah, Although all of my writing is always for you, it’s been a while since I’ve written a letter like this, straight to you. It feels so good to come back to this…talking to you directly. It was 7 months...
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This post was originally published on Medium on April 3rd – it was written 2.5 months after having Jonah. I decided it should live here on Letters to Jonah, too. So here it is <3 I’ve noticed some things since losing my first...
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I’ve been published on Still Standing Magazine for the first time! I’m so excited and humbled to be among such great writers, telling their stories of grief, loss, love, hope, and life. My first post is about our future...
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Last month, I misplaced my dinghy. There I was, sailing along atop the turbulent waves of my grief, when I tumbled out of my little boat and it floated out of my reach. The waves of depression and grief pulled me under, and I struggled...
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