
I’m Karen Kelly. I’m a mother, a writer, and someone learning how to live and communicate after the death of my beloved son, Bix. Afterward, I didn’t collapse. My heart cracked open. It's been a wild ride ever since. Join me.
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My photo from the plane window on our last trip together, which was to Greece, two weeks before Bix died, September 2022.
My cousin and her husband, whom I love very much, are constantly traveling. Every week, it seems, they are somewhere...
Bix at 15, from my photo that I turned into a watercolor.
NOTE TO THE READER: This is a bonus Thursday essay. I usually publish on Tuesday and Friday, but today would have been my son’s 19th birthday, and these are my thoughts today to hon...
With Bix around 2011
I recently read a Mother’s Day essay by a writer I admire. She wrote about how painful Mother’s Day can be for many women: those whose mothers are dead (check!); women who are infertile (check!); grieving mothers (chec...
Anxiety does not stay contained. It moves outward, shaping the tone of a room and the behavior of everyone in it. It often presents as urgency or control, and sometimes as something sharper: criticism or anger disproportionate to the moment...
There is a particular kind of suffering I started to notice after Bix died, and because I notice it, I assume it lives in me, too. It has to do with clinging. Not the dramatic kind we associate with grief, where we cling to the memory of th...
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On Substack, I write about my spiritual journey and the teachings I received after the death of my son Bix in September 2022. Learn more about me at karenkellythewriter.com
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