“Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.” ~Joan Didion This spring marked ten years since I lost my mother. One ordinary Thursday, she didn’t show up to work, and my family spent a blur of days frantically hanging missing person fliers, driving all over New England, and hoping against reason for a happy outcome. My mother was prone to frequent mood swings, but she also talked to my two older brothers and me multiple times a day, and going off the grid was completely out of character. How does someone just vanish? And why? Forty … Continue reading 10 Lessons My Mother’s Death Taught Me About Healing and Happiness