Election results are in, and Trump has been elected president again. I thought I would want to stay in bed and cry all day today, but I don’t. I felt pulled to come to my corner coffee shop. I’m crying a little bit here, but not as much as I did yesterday before we knewContinue reading “November 6, 2024”
Category Archives: Grief
Hopeful and Terrified
When Trump was elected president in 2016, I had a bit of a mental breakdown. My daughter was a baby. On election night I thought we were about to witness our country voting in its first woman president. We didn’t. I cried. Instead we voted in a man who admitted to grabbing women by theContinue reading “Hopeful and Terrified”
MLK/My Dad/Work
Today is my dad’s birthday, and today is also Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. When people would point out to my dad that he shared his birthday with MLK, he would say, “Yup! Good people were born on this day!” He would smile, and this would elicit a smile from the person who broughtContinue reading “MLK/My Dad/Work”
The Stuckness
I recently started working with a new counselor. At our first session last week, I unloaded everything that’s been going on: My dad died in 2020. My mom had a major stroke in 2021. My husband and I have been working through relationship challenges. Motherhood has become really stressful. I haven’t been able to getContinue reading “The Stuckness”
Scared of Everything
The last couple years, I feel like I’ve been scared of everything. This fear seems to be, in part, a function of grief. The grief of losing my father in 2020, the grief of my mom having a stroke in 2021. The grief of seeing the country I love move in terribly inhuman directions. TheContinue reading “Scared of Everything”
Michelle Folk Johnson 