LISA O

Grief

  • a home further north

    I have loved living in this house, making it ours, updating things and making it home.  I have lived in this house since 2002.  Rob said to me once ‘if I die would you stay here’.  My answer was ‘of course I love our home, where else would I go?’ I had no idea that Read more

  • HELLO GRIEF, “NICE” TO MEET YOU

    My life changed on February 8, 2023.  My husband Rob took his life.  I don’t remember much of the month of February 2023, but I’m sure I ate a lot of soup.  There was some in my freezer up until last week when I finally got around to clearing out old stuff.  Soup is good Read more

  • hug

    My gut is raw from anxiety.  My head is fuzzy from overthinking.  My eyes are blurry from the tears.  I sit in the waiting room playing a mindless game on my phone to try and pass the time.  My hands go numb from the endless grasp on my phone, sometimes my only connection to the Read more

  • my life too

    orginally written in May 2023 He took my life too… It took me 453 days to make this realization.  10,872 hours of breathing in and out when that smacked me in the face.  I wrote it in the notes of my phone, I wanted to keep it close as it felt significant.  I didn’t have Read more