On Grief, Guilt, and Not Writing

I know I'm probably the most inconsistent blogger in the universe. New Year's resolutions aren't really my thing, but this year I made several writing-related goals for myself. One of which was to post once a week to this blog. So far, nada. I haven't been able to get my act together before now. Mother's Day seemed an appropriate time to change that.
The main reason I haven't posted is because I knew I had to write this post and I knew writing it was going to be excruciating on a number of lev...