Past posts

• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Off The Wagon
• Misunderstandings and missed understanding
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Dealing (with stuff)
• Cyberloss in six word memoirs
• Balance disguised as healing
• Giving voice to the mess
• The struggle to forgive
• Life takes faith
• Remembering six years on
• An article on grieving in the digital age
• Thoughts on the first Navigating Cyberloss Facebook event
• Accepting progress
• Creating the conditions for change
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Spent
• Drowning out the thoughts
• Musical signs
• Vehemence, variance and poetry in grief
• 300th post and an announcement
• The new notebook conundrum
• A second new beginning
• Honouring George for both of us
• Guest post: Fly For You
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Blessings
• Grieving through music and poetry
• Improving on “I forgive you”
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Getting ‘there’
• Choosing my words for 2013
• Facing and resisting
• Mapping my journey
• Learning to acknowledge pre-anniversary grief
• Musings on a looming anniversary
• Only Words
• Grief’s New Year rumblings
• Grief and New Year’s Resolutions [2013 edition]
• Reflecting and regrouping
• Seizing joy wherever possible
• Festive greetings
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Promptless
• Much of a nothingness
• Carry the Fire, by “Rabbi B.”
• Sharing something beautiful and heartfelt…
• Peace and new beginnings written in the sky
• A celebration: two years of Navigating Cyberloss
• Musical surprises and sustenance
• Thanksgiving in grief
• Re-evaluating with grace
• Technology is changing how Americans remember the dead
• It’s always the little things
• Life in spite of grief…
• Honouring the Day of the Dead part two
• Honouring the Day of the Dead for our departed online friends
• Sinking and swimming again with the aid of poetry
• Successes, songs and struggles
• ‘Connection lost’: what it means to connect online [Project Underblog guest post]
• Finding the right words for both of us…
• Respite
• Following up on ‘Sometimes I wish’
• Free to enjoy ‘our’ music again
• Memorialising in big ways through cyberloss
• Found words of comfort in cyberloss
• Getting To Know You bloghop 28/9/2012
• Thoughts on Kim
• Big and small signs in cyberloss
• Sometimes I wish…
• Crossing paths
• Using poetry to help in the grieving process
• Looking back to find gratitude
• Believing in Heaven after cyberloss
• SOC Sunday: Freewriting
• In gratitude for 10,000 views
• The path to forgiveness after cyberloss
• What is the meaning of this? Cyberloss and closure
• Rejoining online communities after cyberloss
• Practising gratitude after cyberloss
• Continued connections after cyberloss
• Changes in outlook – grieving and progress
• Thoughts on memorialization in online communities
• Perspective
• Finally painting my masterpiece…
• Connecting and commemorating.
• Guest post: ‘For Macey: A Friend I Never Met’ by Kevin McGinley
• 10th July 2012 – a birthday tribute
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Challenged
• Online mourning in the news
• Equilibrium in cyberloss
• Irrational upsurges of grief
• A possible new addition to the blog
• Does the loss of an online friend count as bereavement?
• Grieving and gifts
• The Reader Appreciation Award
• Reaching out to relatives of our online friends
• Update on the book
• Blogging and friends blog hop: my contribution
• Ways of sharing memories after cyberloss
• Research and flashbacks
• The significance of special occasions after cyberloss
• Five benefits of sharing your cyberloss story
• Preparing to share my cyberloss experience in a new way…
• Participation in online communities after cyberloss
• Cyberloss and the fear of forgetting
• Difficult decisions and cyberloss
• The Confusion of Missing You
• Sharing your story after cyberloss is important – here’s why
• 100 word song – ‘Waiting on a Friend’
• One Lovely Blog Award
• NaBloPoMo: Soul Bearing
• Gratitude for 7,500 views.
• ‘Cyberloss and close friendship’ – Confessions of a Funeral Director guest post
• NaBloPoMo: A Mo(u)rning Poem
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Success and cyberloss
• NaBloPoMo: Passing Judgement
• NaBloPoMo: Detachment
• Time, grief and cyberloss
• NaBloPoMo: Putting It Into Words
• Cyberloss and showing your support
• NaBloPoMo: No Exact Science – grief poetry
• NaBloPoMo: Sharing
• NaBloPoMo: Thinking of You (Pensando en Ti)
• Cyberloss, grief, memories and choices
• NaBloPoMo: Endless [plus Kim's birthday "tribute"]
• Cancer and power
• Birthday greetings
• NaBloPoMo: Something Misunderstood
• NaBloPoMo: Understanding
• Cyberloss and privacy
• NaBloPoMo: Hope
• Relief- Easter over at last.
• NaBloPoMo: A ‘Shady’ poem
• NaBloPoMo: When Grief Takes My Speech
• Five years on…
• NaBloPoMo: Alternative Endings
• Cyberloss, grief and the ‘complete collection’
• NaBloPoMo: Wondering why – grief poetry
• Is grieving on Twitter ‘bogus’?
• NaBloPoMo: The Art of Awaiting
• Tweeting a cancer journey- interesting article.
• NaBloPoMo: ‘War Zone’
• A blessing of sorts from her
• Recalling the beginning of my grief journey
• NaBloPoMo – ‘One Sided Conversation’
• Stream of Consciousness Sunday: I don’t wanna
• April’s Arrival- first poem for NaBloPoMo
• April is here, and NaBloPoMo is upon us
• Grief poetry: ‘This is Easter’
• Reclaiming the right to grieve cyberlosses- new article
• Music, Easter grief and almost crying
• Trying to trust balance in grief
• Why blog about cyberloss?
• Another fond memory whilst getting through pre-anniversary grief
• Another song for a grieving soul: ‘Closer To The Light’
• Which came first: the grief or the cold?
• Fumbling my way through pre-Easter grief
• Making something new out of grief
• Grief poetry: ‘The Coat’
• March 2012 ICLW introduction.
• Lessons from our online friends: What have yours taught you?
• Photographic grief triggers
• Humour in grief: a Mother’s Day related memory of Chris
• Using art to get through grief as the anniversary approaches
• Defined by grief, five years on?
• Approaching Easter, oncoming grief…
• ‘They always know they’re loved’: musings on cyberloss, grief and love
• Pre-anniversary grief
• A Spanish song for grieving
• Writing through grief as the anniversary approaches
• Ways in which she’s with me still- an experimental list.
• Testing my own mettle (Run up to Easter, part two)
• Further additions to the blogroll
• One month ’til the anniversary (run up to Easter, part one)
• Remarkable words from another grief blogger.
• I’m no Shakespeare, but…
• Could these be the sweetest words in the world?
• Grief poetry
• Additions to the blogroll
• A sense of pre-Easter emptiness
• Discussing cyberloss in the outside world (part 2)
• Finally, some action!
• Discussing cyberloss in the outside world.
• Waiting for a chance for closure…
• The emails have been dealt with
• George Harrison’s 69th birthday
• Commemorating six years since I met Chris
• IComLeavWe introduction.
• UK Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2012
• Having a ‘moment’ in a garden centre- again.
• A song and a taste of memory
• Do we know what we’ve got whilst we have it?
• In gratitude for 3,500 views.
• Undesired Promises
• Sorry for my silence.
• Versatile Blogger Award nominated again!
• Blogging the unbloggable
• The blessing of those who listen
• Jumped by fate.
• Love Sorrow – Mary Oliver
• Stuck: pure and simple
• A sweet new understanding
• Cyberloss and Free Advice Day
• False start (or four down, loads to go)
• And so it begins….dealing with emails
• One year gone by…
• Approaching an anniversary
• Poetry: Grief Burst
• An extended origami article for Trauma2Art
• Commemorating an English friend from Canada – Bill Howdle’s experience of online loss
• Grief and New Year’s Resolutions (2012 version)
• Including departed online friends in festive customs.
• A Christmas wish from Navigating Cyberloss
• Memorials and rituals for our online friends
• It’s hard work to hate somebody so much…
• Remembering online friends offline
• Inarticulate and sore
• What I’d say? I don’t know, but this song says some of it.
• Potential trigger: three times?
• Ten years since we lost George Harrison
• A nice surprise…perhaps from her.
• An amazing video.
• Grim realisations…
• Order of the Good Death – a very interesting website.
• An entirely different kind of café (with gratitude to Kristie West)
• Watching ‘George Harrison: Living In The Material World’
• Gifts from way back in my memory…
• So, that’s that.
• Car conversations
• Livestrong Day- October 2, 2011.
• Looking for a non-existent needle in a haystack.
• Relentless…
• Beware of sadness…
• Triggers which are outside our control.
• Diplomacy in grief
• Walking Slow….
• Drenched in cold water again…
• How can I help you?
• At last – a little more light.
• August 2011 – UNICEF ‘Month of Giving’
• Offshoots from grief journalling.
• Demons on every corner
• What are you so afraid of?
• 10th July, 2011- a birthday tribute
• Recording done, at last.
• Ouch- got me again.
• Often on my mind, always in my heart…
• Drawing inspiration from the old (musical) well…
• A golden opportunity to remember.
• The height of bravery or the heart of a fool?
• Endless procrastination
• Thoughts on Terry Pratchett’s “Choosing to Die”
• Can there be a heaven if there’s no God?
• Trying to find the source of a St. Augustine quote
• Doing everything I can to avoid thinking about it
• Anger, always anger…
• Cruel parallels [warning: could offend/trigger]
• Versatile Blogger award? Wow!
• Have I really done everything possible?
• Origami and grief work
• Fighting for custody because of fighting cancer- what gives?
• Thoughts resulting from insomnia
• Different shades of ‘grrr’
• To delete or not to delete- that is the question
• Step by small step
• Ripples, fire and rain- more music in grief
• Dealing with emails- finally.
• The long and winding road- of grief
• A moment of joy
• Finding distractions along the road
• Further thoughts about the headstone
• The urge to ‘do something!’
• Easter- hope or just a pause?
• Procrastination continues
• An Easter healing ritual
• Songs for the wounded soul: Emmylou Harris
• Coping with anger- or not, as the case may be
• Then There’s a Stone- more poetry
• A birthday wish for Kim.
• A new look.
• Heavy hearted on dear Kim’s birthday
• Assorted curses on the eve of her birthday
• Urk…
• Done with anniversary season for another year
• Anniversary week: Four years today
• Anniversary eve- and more poetry.
• Numbness, insomnia, three days to go…
• Praying her home with a song- 4/4/07
• Anniversary week starts here.
• Return To Truth
• Creativity and grief
• Thought cat and the thought mice (poem)
• Void II
• Words I found a long time ago…
• Late night realisations…
• “The song becomes the prayer”- writing over at trauma2art.com
• Where is He in all this?
• Haze
• The ache…
• Void
• ‘Someone’s Said It Better’ – a song for Kim.
• One foot in front of the other…repeat
• Grieving with what remains of my faith…
• Fresh grief…
• Keeping the door ajar
• “Opening the Door to Hope – Helping you Step through Grief”
• Final conversations…
• Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then
• Do you *really*?
• It’s January, and I’m anticipating April…what’s up with that?
• A grief-related New Year’s resolution.
• Strange and empty
• Reminders in unexpected places
• Real world actions to mark online loss
• Cybergrief and the festive season
• Short bursts
• The Vacuum after an Online Loss
• Marking anniversaries and honouring milestones
• Using music in grief
• The importance of online remembrance.
• Handling an announcement
• My cyberloss story