by Elaine Olsen | Jul 17, 2026 | dad, death, grief, out of the mouths of babes
Granny Camp ended on Tuesday when her parents came to pick her up after their four-day getaway to celebrate their anniversary. What a time we had – Granny, Poppy, Aunt Mimi and our grand-girl, Finley. As a six-year-old, she has turned a corner on former interests....
by Elaine Olsen | Aug 21, 2019 | ancients, death, friendship, heaven
We said good-bye to her last evening. Elegantly adorned in a deep fuchsia dress with her silvery, full coiffure swept perfectly to her right side, Inez Perkins was laid to rest in a pecan-wood coffin next to her beloved Calbert. During the service, she was surrounded...
by Elaine Olsen | Jun 20, 2017 | death, grace, grief, letting go
Grace’s words surprised me that night. I wasn’t expecting them. What I was expecting … well, I’m not quite sure. I’d never been down this road before. Just an hour earlier, I was eating orange sherbet while sitting on a couch next to my mother-in-law, Rosalie, when...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 17, 2012 | death, friendship, grief, Olive Press
It’s been two months since she died… their mom, my friend (you can read about it here). This past week, my husband and I made the six-hour round trip to their home to share with them in their sorrow. To do grief. To remember her and to allow that remembrance to touch...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 6, 2012 | death, grief
I pulled my jacket tighter around me while out for a walk this afternoon. It’s cold outside. Last week, it was seventy degrees. Today? Somewhere in the upper 40’s. Not too bad if the wind wasn’t blowing, but it was. I thought I was adequately prepared, but I wasn’t....
by Elaine Olsen | Nov 28, 2011 | cancer, cancer volume 4, death, eternity, friendship, grief
Judith made it home to Jesus on Thanksgiving Day. I’ve been living with her absence since then. Four days is hardly enough time to displace my grief. I don’t have a place to put my grief, not really. I can’t send a casserole to the West Coast… can’t stop by the family...
