“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.” Pema Chödrön

Alter: My Commitment to Verb

Hi. Are you still there, dear reader? It’s been a while since I’ve written. I thought I would pop my head out from under the rock of my own life to give a bit of an update. Today happens to be the third anniversary of J’s death. Last time I wrote, I was deep in…

Under Pressure: A Song to Greet 2022

Hi. How are you doing? I haven’t posted for a while because honestly, I don’t know what to say. There is a vast empty space where coherent thoughts used to be, a gaping hole in my ability to make sense of the world. It is as if I’ve completed most of the puzzle and can…

Eulogy

On September 11th we got together to say goodbye to Jeremy. I spoke. This is what I said. The first time I saw Jeremy I was fourteen and he was sixteen and he was skateboarding down the halls of Oak Bay High School flying a Millennium Falcon. The closest way I can describe the feeling…

CAST: A Primer on Letting Go, Part 5

The T in CAST stands for Trust. Trust is a big word. We use it a lot, to mean very different things. It is both a noun (to have trust) and a verb (to trust someone). From the Old Norse traust, it first appeared in the English language around 1200 and meant something equivalent to…

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I’m Lina. Welcome to my blog, where I’ve been writing about parenthood, marriage, divorce and what comes after since 2007. Warning: Sometimes it gets raw.

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