Here’s guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with a post on bereavement. Memory and Tears The question asked today in the bereavement group is to encourage talking. The moderator does not want anyone to keep their feelings hidden within themselves. Saying, ‘I’m fine’ when you are not, is taking a risk of coming down with a […]
Bereavement
Do Dogs Feel Grief? Coping Together
Dorothy Skarles continues her series on Bereavement, Memoir, and Expressing Oneself in Writing with a post about Dogs and Grief. Welcome friend. Do Dogs Feel Grief? Throughout the world many dedicated people own pets. The bereavement group is no exception. “I don’t think dogs grieve,” one woman said when the subject of grief for the family […]
Bereavement / Are You a Couch Potato?
Today, guest blogger Dorothy Skarles shares a note she received from her brother-in-law that relates to all memoir writers. To this, she adds another installment in Dash Off a Memory, Create a Memoir, by revisiting a subject she knows well–Bereavement. Welcome Dorothy. Are You A Couch Potato? This morning, my brother-in-law sent me this little note, and since I feel the sentiment goes […]
Write About Your Feelings / Bereavement
Guest blogger Dorothy Skarles is back to highlight a subject close to her heart.Bereavement. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, bereavement is a noun; a state or fact of being. But in the post that follows, Dorothy turns it into a verb. By that I mean, Dorothy shares her emotional response to loss in a […]
