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One Day At A Time: January 2013
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Thursday, January 31, 2013. This week was "momento night" at the grief group I'm co-facilitating. It's always a very emotional night for everyone and can bring up many, many tears. Part of my job as a co-facilitator is to bring in an item of my own to help get the ball rolling. Basically a couple hours before I had to go I finally decided I could put it off no more. I was tellin...
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One Day At A Time: 1,000 Sleepless Nights
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Tuesday, December 11, 2012. 1,000 Sleepless Nights. On Monday I woke up from 1,000 nights. 1,000 nights without my Craig. 1,000 days of missing him, of wondering what happened, of not understanding. 1,000 days of tears, of heartache, of anger. 1,000 days of fighting, of breathing, of putting one foot in front of the other. 1,000 feels so big. It sounds so long. It is missing hea...
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One Day At A Time: This is MY FAULT
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. This is MY FAULT. Today I have to break one of my rules. Normally I refrain from getting swallowed up in religious or political debates in social media, but this one hits too close to home. It makes my stomach churn to think of these families watching the news and going online to see these kinds of comments. Why? Do you know what was helpful? Those ty...
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One Day At A Time: December 2012
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. This is MY FAULT. Today I have to break one of my rules. Normally I refrain from getting swallowed up in religious or political debates in social media, but this one hits too close to home. It makes my stomach churn to think of these families watching the news and going online to see these kinds of comments. Why? Do you know what was helpful? Those ty...
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One Day At A Time: July 2012
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Sunday, July 8, 2012. Your Voice In My Head. I've gotten so used to talking to you that sometimes I forget I am not. I whisper words in empty rooms and always, always the air whispers back. It tricks me by doing it in your voice. It wears your puzzled expression. It laughs when you laugh. Sometimes I ask you what you think of my dress, how I look, do you like my hair this way?
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One Day At A Time: April 2012
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Saturday, April 14, 2012. Bill of Rights for Grief. Source: http:/ family.lifegoesstrong.com/article/bill-rights-grieving). 1 You have the right to take whatever path you take through your grief without judgment. 2 You have the right to ignore or incorporate any or all of the MOUNTAINS of advice you will get. 3 You have the right to say: "No thank you.". 10 You have the right to...
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One Day At A Time: March 2013
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Sunday, March 17, 2013. Normally on each anniversary I pen a letter to Craig here on my blog, filling him on on what he has missed, what I want to tell him. Somehow I imagine these letters floating about in cyberspace, making their way to him by osmosis. I talk to Craig every day, but I like the ritual of summarizing my year for him on such an important date. Rather, I think I h...
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One Day At A Time: My Grief is Bigger Than Your Grief
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Sunday, February 10, 2013. My Grief is Bigger Than Your Grief. This week I had a rather miserable experience with someone supposedly in the bereavement industry. I say supposedly because she seemed a bit of a fraud (ok, not a bit) and broke the cardinal rule of grieving: comparing one person's grief to someone else's. As I said, every person is different. Some people may exp...
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One Day At A Time: March 2014
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One Day At A Time. My husband and best friend, Craig Garvin, was killed in a car accident on March 16, 2010. This is our story. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The Real Stages of Grief. Here is a fun little fact most people don't know: The "Stages of Grief" (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) were actually written about someone coming to terms with their own death, not the death of someone they loved. How do I know this? 1) A rather reliable shrink told me. 2) Because I've grieved. Today I thoug...
