Grief is so competitive. When I first started doing this work and started to share my own losses the people with ‘bigger’ tragedies than mine would send me a lot…
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I might not have witnessed the most tragic losses of our time but I have been a witness to thousands of mourners and I come away with one truth. We…
Last night I sat in a room full of women who lost their beloved husbands. Well I wasn’t really sitting with them but I was on a big screen via…
I like starting from nothing. I love to start from very little. Rock bottom is actually an inspiring place for me. I have nothing to lose when I am there….
“Nothing there is beyond hope, nothing that can be sworn impossible, nothing wonderful, since Zeus, father of the Olympians, made night from midday, hiding the light of the shining sun.”…
The first time I made the connection between comedy and pain, was just after September 11, 2001. Weeks before, I had taken my first-ever course in stand-up comedy, at Caroline’s…
I woke up one morning last week and the insane drive, the impossible mission to heal the world was not there. Don’t worry I am not going anywhere. But I…
I am not going to add to the conversations everyone is having about suicide and depression. I could talk about it, but that will not help me talk about joy…
When my husband died, I was told that I would never stop grieving, that grief lasts forever. Not only was I told this by every single person I ever met,…
