cancer – The Tennessee Honeybee

The Unexpected

Last Thursday night, after we had laid down to bed and K was already asleep, our fire alarm went off. I was watching Golden Girls

Today is one year since my sister’s memorial service, though as a family we didn’t say our final goodbye until more than a week later.

It’s been a month. At 11 o’clock tonight, it has been a full lunar cycle since my sister breathed her last breath and left this

One of the things I inherited from my sister was several pairs of her shoes. This wasn’t particularly intentional, my momma just started asking me,

Today was a day and night of tears. It is becoming more real each day that Chelsea is gone. My house is something of a

It’s another “night shift” in which there is no one to watch over. It’s been almost two weeks and it all still feels unreal. Expected,

It’s been a week (and 30 minutes) since my sister left this world. It’s surreal still…a week ago I was in her bed next to

They say there are no atheists in a foxhole. That’s pretty much hooey but I will say, this atheist/agnostic/whatever you want to call me has

When my sister breathed her last, my first instinct was to crawl into bed with her… to keep her warm, to be as close to

I stood hunched over in the shower and watched the water swirling towards the drain but it shaped an undulating heart and I thought, “This