• In Remembrance

    Feisty, fiery, full of life. These are just some of the words to describe my grandma. She was always so vivacious and active. Even as the years passed, I never thought of her as getting older. She was just Grandma. “90 years young,” was often said, and it reflects her spirit up until the end. One of my favorite photos is of me and my cousin Josh when we’re little, taken outside of Friendly’s, right after going to see Sesame Street Live with Grandma and Grandpa. She loved to regale the tale of how, while eating our meals, she’d turn to me and say, “Amanda, chew! Chew! Eat faster!”and then…

  • Recovery and Reflection

    The last few months have been largely about recovery and reflection, neither of which seem to be going the way I would have hoped.  Recovery: Slow healing is better than no healing, but it’s still frustrating. To lose everything in an instant, one would hope the reverse would also be true. Instead, it’s a long, slow climb to get back to where things were. And of course, since it’s still in “the early stages”, there’s no guarantee things will go back. It’s been five months, which feels like forever. But that’s not even 25% of the timeline given.  It’s so hard to not feel negative emotions. Anger, sadness, frustration. The…

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