I’ve been carrying an enormous amount of grief in secret for months. The second week of January this year, a couple days into the Los Angeles fires, the power went out in my mother in law’s house a few blocks from us. She fell and broke her shoulder. She had other complications for which she refused treatment. By the end of January she was in hospice. She died last week, and we buried her last Thursday, the day after my webinar. She was the mother to me that my own mother never was. And if you knew her, like all … Continue reading »