My Updated Coping Plan as of February 2025 I admit that since November, I have coped by keeping my head down, not writing much, frenetically adding activities to the schedule, eating way too much licorice and cheese, and not carving any time to be still, to read, or to look up. Sound familiar? When the Universe Gifts You a Pause Three weeks ago, my 8-year-old fractured her ankle. She earned herself crutches and a boot. I earned myself hours of cancelling all of our activities

With the current horrors and terror in the Middle East, the death and destruction from hurricanes in the Southeast, and countless other world events and states that deserve our attention and action, many of us are asking ourselves a difficult question: Where does my grief fit in when others are suffering so immensely in such extreme ways?