A New Christmas
This is our first Christmas Day of this new life of ours. It was a good Christmas Day. It felt …
Category Archives: Grief and Loss
A Trash Bag of Receipts
The fire has changed us. We are both fastidious and sometimes downright irritating about our need for things to be …
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
The weather is snowy. We have a tree with crystal bells and gifts we have been given this year and …
Christmas in a Box
The fire was at the end of June. Christmas was a long way off. When it got close I had …
One Hundred and Fifty Eight Days and One Hundred and Fifty Eight Posts
The fire happened 158 days ago. We have posted 158 entries to the blog. We have missed making entries a …
Sometimes it Really is that Simple
The work we have done this week in recovering from the fire has been hard. It has been that moment …
Emotinoal Value and Monitary Value
We have been working on completing our personal property inventory for our insurance claim. It has taken a long time …
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Today, like so many days living in our temporary lives in our temporary house waiting for the promise of a …
Learning Thankfulness from the Ashes of Our Fire
We have steeled ourselves for weeks to use Thanksgiving week to buckle down and survive the tedium and emotional onslaught …
Crushed Under the Weight of the Grief and Paperwork of Loss
The past two days have been some of the harder ones in a good long while. It is not the …
Building One Home 