Grief Has It's Own Logic

Grief is not a gentle slope. It does not start at the top (or the bottom) and gradually diminish. It comes in peaks and valleys. And sometimes it comes when one least expects it. I was okay for a couple of days, successfully bypassing the minefields of memory — I've learned what of our things bring me comfort and what brings me pain – but then yesterday the grief spiked, and it's as it was in the beginning.

It was such a silly thing that set off this new spate of grief. I washed our...