Can you think of that one tragic story of someone else’s loss you remember hearing about, and you thought “I can’t even imagine”? Whether it be a childhood friend, an old neighbor, a distant cousin, a friend of a friend, or someone really close to you? I can think of a handful of these stories…

It’s now been a full year since losing my dad, and there’s still so much I have to say about living with grief. I find myself carrying grief every day. It’s not as constant and overwhelming as it was in the very beginning, but it’s still there. Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, always a companion. There…