“I don’t believe you’ll find that book at all interesting, since you’re not a mother yourself.” I remember it so clearly. I was speechless. We sat, side by side, in the front of her car. She was dropping me off after lunch together on a hot, late summer day. I had told her about a […]
Carrying and Miscarrying
by on February 10, 2019 Leave a Comment
By Rachel Asres | @raykkel I carried her for nine weeks. I suppose I don’t really know it was a her; it’s just a feeling I have. We would have named her Imogen—made in the image of God, the One who knit her together. She was at once an answer to prayers and a total […]
Letting Go of the Life We Had Planned
by on January 9, 2019 Leave a Comment
By Marlys Johnson | Twitter: @iMarlysJohnson They left a card on our oak dining table wearing an E.M. Forster quote: “We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” While I spent my first holiday as a widow with family on […]
In My Grief, I Speak to the Silence
by on January 6, 2019 Leave a Comment
By Tabitha Terlunen | Instagram: @tabithaterlunen [Trigger warning. This post shares about a stillbirth.] There is no silence like the absence of a heartbeat. There is no quiet like an empty crib. She was, then was not. I felt her move and hiccup and kick, and then I felt her be still. I sat in […]
I Looked for Joy in the Wrong Place
by on December 11, 2018 Leave a Comment
I thought it was gone, but it turns out, I was just looking for it in the wrong place. Four years ago, when my dad died, everything changed. I’m not just speaking in the metaphoric sense that everything changed in grief, but in the very real, physical sense that everything in our wee Forbes world […]
