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The long run of isolation requires 'social cheerfulness'

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Oct 24, 2020 6:00 AM - I write about long-term grief. But now we are also faced with long-term "stay at home." It crept up on us. We are already at the seventh-month mark of relative isolation due to the awful coronavirus.
To move or not to move can be a difficult choice

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Oct 17, 2020 6:00 AM - When Baheej died eight years ago, I stayed put. I did not move. I remembered how difficult that move to Sleepy Hollow had been in 1992 and, for several reasons, I thought I'd be better off right here.
Dealing with personal illness, grief and fair-weather friends

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Oct 10, 2020 6:00 AM - One of the most difficult situations one can face is a personal illness while grieving over the death of a loved one. Sometimes in grief even more is heaped on you, such as loss of a job, the need to move, financial problems, a divorce, the loss of a pet or other stresses. These really rough times are when we especially need the encouragement of family and friends.
With no family reunion this year, efforts needed to stay in touch

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Oct 3, 2020 6:00 AM - So many family reunions, events and activities are being taken away from us in these coronavirus days. So we need to muster up all the creativity we can and make efforts to bridge the gap.
Shopping in your own closets

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Sep 26, 2020 6:44 PM - You never know what memories -- and useful items -- you might find by digging through your closets and cupboards.
The good impact of 'spoiling' and being spoiled

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Sep 19, 2020 6:00 AM - Spoiling usually brings something negative to mind -- spoiling food, spoiling a good time, or other matters ruined in some way. But I'm here to say, I think of spoiling as something great for friends, or for your pets -- or even for yourself.
Stay out of other people's business, even when you are family

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Sep 12, 2020 7:00 AM - It's very important to exercise caution and restraint when tempted to interfere in the personal matters of family and friends. I almost landed in such a pitfall recently when I started down the wrong path of interfering.
Poetry provides comfort and memories of a special mother

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Sep 5, 2020 6:00 AM - Not many people read poetry these days. My dear husband, Baheej, loved poetry and was raised reading and reciting it. He read poetry every day right up to his death. Every morning.
You can't 'overdo it' when learning good qualities from your parents

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Aug 28, 2020 3:22 PM - Self-reliance is certainly needed in grief when one is much more on their own than before. Some people need to learn independence later in life, but it can be done.
That 'toughest time of the year' came, and went

By Susan Anderson-Khleif
Aug 22, 2020 7:00 AM - There seems to be no way of escaping long-term grief, at least for me. It is more difficult at certain times or days of the year. Learning how to cope with it helps.

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