Magic lily sightings
Because it rained so hard yesterday, I brought some magic lilies inside this morning, wanting to enjoy them before the rain …
Author Archives: Kay Windsor
Story and bridges
Our group of bereaved mothers recently got together for a writing retreat the way we have been doing for close to a …
Sisterhood of the Traveling Sign and Mothers
Beverly just added an update to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Sign page. See https://fartheralongbook.com/sisterhood-of-the-traveling-sign/ She added an acrostic for Mother’s Day: …
What does grief look like?
Grief looks like a windswept dune, sand grains pausing then stinging as they are blown first in one direction then …
Knitting hearts
During the last few weeks I completed my first knitting project. I knitted a heart-shaped bowl and felted it. It …
Mistaken identities
The headline in The New Yorker immediately caught my eye: “A Death in the Database.” The blog post by Amy …
Penelope’s web: The warp and woof of grief
This piece was written at a writing toward healing symposium in Warrenton, Virginia in November 2012. Carol Henderson was leading …
Light and dark
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has …
What the Heart Cannot Forget
Joyce Sutphen’s poem “What the Heart Cannot Forget” has been weaving itself in and out of my thoughts and memories …
Seventeen Years
It’s been seventeen years to the day since my daughter left our house on the way to the West-Reynolds football …
Aunt Lucile
Aunt Lucile, who died last spring just days before her 99th birthday, was a source of strength and comfort for …
Measuring time and distance and memories
This cool September morning I took an early morning walk, and for a minute I closed my eyes and thought …
String theory
Yesterday I wrote that I would try to continue to untangle my thoughts and share a red thread story. I’ve …
Hope and rocking chairs and threads
I have so many thoughts tangled in my head and heart today, but to untangle them a little, I am …
Book Events
Book Events.
A Midsummer Night with Farther Along writers
Seven of the thirteen of us gathered to share some “farther along” writings at an outdoor dinner party at the …
Farther along, we tell our stories (and leave our cards)
For a long time, some of us in the writing group of bereaved mothers did not find it easy to …
Peggy Saves the Louvre (and Jeune Fille)!
Not everyone in our writing group knows this story, so I am sharing it partly for our group. Every time …
Bridges and baccalaureates
I love baccalaureates and graduations. I never thought I would say this—not I, the one who might once have chosen …
“High Functioning Bereaved Parents”
Here are some reflections from my late night/early morning reading: Jeremy Shaton wrote in a New York Times blog about …
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