As I Lay Living: Thoughts On Grief and Death

Free Ebook

I have written quite a bit on the subject of death, grief, and loss, since my mom died almost 9 years ago now (which feels like forever ago, but also just like yesterday, because grief is weird like that).

My mom’s deathiversary is coming up in less than two weeks, on December 14th. She was originally supposed to be released from hospital on the 15th, but obviously, things did not turn out that way.

So not only is December a literally dark time of year (at least where I live in the Northern Hemisphere), it’s also a bit of an emotionally and mentally dark time of year. Not in a scary way or anything. Just in a sort of heavy way. A griefy way. A sad way. Like there’s a dark fog that now blankets this time of year since my mom died smack dab in the middle of the month, leading up to the Christmas holidays.

It’s also coming up to the 3rd deathiversary of our last rescue dog, Penny, who we lost the day after my mom’s death-date on December 15th, 2021. So that’s another added layer of grief-ness to this month.

Maybe all this is what as spurred me to update my ebook on death, and grief and loss, that I whimsically (or so I thought) titled As I Lay Living, which is a play on author William Faulkner’s 1930’s Southern Gothic novel As I Lay Dying, that I hadn’t freshened up with new content since 2021, and it turns out I had quite a bit of stuff to add that I’d written since then.

So without further ado, here’s the book that you can get free on Smashwords in a variety of formats (epub, pdf, mobi (for kindle I think?)), and also I have it up in my Ko-Fi store as well, so I’ll share the link to that too - where you can also download it as a PDF, epub, mobi and Doc versions.

Here they are:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1079091

https://ko-fi.com/s/c114d47258

So if you’re going through some challenging times of grief and loss due to deaths in your life (or just upheavals), check out this free ebook!

You might find some things to be helpful. And if nothing else, you’ll realize you aren’t alone in feeling whatever it is you’re feeling during this time - because we all go through this at some point in life - none of us unfortunately escape dealing with grief and loss.

And don’t forget to live with a dose of wonder.

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