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...
