by Rachael Flick | Nov 22, 2022 | Pandemic, Resilience, Thin Blue Line
September 11, 2001 “Never Forget” We have memorials and events and vigils. We bow our heads in silence. If you ask someone where they were when they learned about the terrorist attack on 9/11, they remember with crystal clarity. When we say “never forget,” we’re...
by Rachael Flick | May 31, 2020 | Grief, Life After Loss, Pandemic
Manuel Zetina told his friend he’d kill a cop when he got the chance. I don’t know a lot about Manuel, the young man who murdered my husband. But what I do know allows me to infer some things. He was a minority. He was looking for the belonging and power that gang...
by Rachael Flick | May 9, 2020 | Pandemic
We’ve always been friends. Organic samples. Skylights in your box stores. Your CEO pays himself far less than most people in his position. When I was drowning in despair, I sent friends with my membership to buy food for the twins’ school lunches. When I could barely...
by Rachael Flick | Apr 26, 2020 | Grief, Life After Loss, Pandemic
Grief is: missing your pandemic partner. Your trauma buddy. The person you process your decisions with. . . . Being in a global crisis has put all of us in uncharted territory. There’s no handbook for handling quarantine and all the physical and emotional fallout from...
