During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge. My first book, a memoir on grief, will be available Summer 2021. Follow me on the journey to publication! Image and Poem © 2021, Mikaela D'Eigh
The Bitter with the Sweet: Honeycombs and Hives
Immediately after the maple branch fell Sunday evening, I noticed them. Hundreds of tiny bodies flying around the broken trunk left behind.
Saying Farewell: Another Death, Another Grief
I watched form the window, breathless with awe and horror, as my hundred year old friend fell to the ground.
Exhausted: Reclaiming the Art of Napping
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.” Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown's Little Book of Wisdom Why does it usually take an illness to reclaim our right to leisure?! The last couple of afternoons, I have had to take a nap. I don’t mean fifteen or twenty minute power naps. I’m … Continue reading Exhausted: Reclaiming the Art of Napping
Death Makes Me a Coward
After living with the regret of not spending more time with my father before he died three years ago, you would think that this would have made me braver in the face of death. It has not.
