With the recent deaths of my wife’s grandfather and her great aunt, I’ve been spending a lot of time talking with people about grief. Several years ago, I took a wonderful online class entitled Grief in a Family Context It was a wonderful course, and I encourage everyone who is at all interested in a scholarly exploration into the grieving process to take this course. It is “a 3-credit, combined graduate and undergraduate course”, so don’t take the course unless you are up for doing some hard work, both academically, and, if you are dealing with grief yourself, emotionally.

I thought about that course today when I received a wonderful email from Tammy. Tammy has a website entitled, As I knew her It is a beautiful blog about grief and missing a sister. Please read it. I had posted on her blog what a great blog I thought it was. I mentioned the passing of my wife’s grandmother.

Tammy wrote me a brief note pointing me to Califonia Hammonds. This is another great blog that I encourage you to read. I responded to Tammy and told her that I am a big fan of Greg and his blog.

It is worth noting that not all grief is from death. Another form of grief is the grief one feels when separated from a loved one for prolonged periods. One of my favorite blogs handling this sort of grief is trucandygirl’s blog. It is a blog she writes about her husband in the Marine’s in Iraq. It talks about the fears that military wives have for their husbands, the grief at the death of soldiers from her husband’s company, and the longing to see her husband again soon.

If you don’t have the time to take Dr. Gilbert’s course on grief, at least spend a little time reading these three blogs. You can learn a lot from them.