Deana J Driver - Writer

The last few weeks have been getting to me. Set aside the pandemic concerns about family and friends going back to school, the lack of sales...

You have to make your own happiness. This is a lesson that is reinforced daily after you lose a life partner. You learn it early in your g...

I was recently invited to share a "Message of Hope" at an all-day Family Grief Retreat in my community, hosted by Palliative Care ...

A few times a year for the past two years, I have volunteered as a peer helper at spousal bereavement support group sessions. After each se...

When you've lost someone you love, music can be either heartbreaking, a welcome distraction, helpful, healing or something else entire...

On the last leg of my flight home from a recent vacation in Kauai, I was sitting in a plane at the airport in Calgary, AB. I closed my eyes...

For the last couple of weeks, I've been thinking about writing a blog with tips on how to get through the holidays when you are grievin...

I broke some pottery the other day. On purpose. I hit it with a hammer.  Then I took the broken pieces of that beautiful piece of p...

July 4, 2017 - A couple hours from now will mark 18 months since my wonderful husband, Al, left this earth to join the rest of the ang...

This post was written on July 23, 2017.  Yesterday was a good day. There were many moments of sadness, tears, and sorrow, but there were...