This Year August Seems Like Getting Used to My Mother’s Death

Don’t let anyone tell you how to do your grieving, either.

Jean Anne Feldeisen
Crow’s Feet
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4 min readAug 10, 2021

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elderly woman with short white hair wearing purple pants and purple flowered top. She is sitting on a porch, staring into the yard beyond.
Photo credits: picture of her mother taken by the author

Mildred E. Felsberg, my mother, died on July 23. I know I need to keep writing, and I keep wanting to write about my mother. I know this isn’t the only thing happening in the world. But sometimes it seems like it. What else is there to say right now that makes…

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Jean Anne Feldeisen
Crow’s Feet

I've got my fingers in way too many pots. Cook, writer, poet, reader, musician, therapist, dreamer, a transplant from New Jersey suburbs to a farm in Maine.