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Greg Stitz

Time Doesn’t Heal ALL Wounds — But it DOES Heal Almost Everything — If You Give it Time

2 min readMar 30, 2024

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Greg Stitz

Grief — The Gift That Keeps on Taking

I forget who, but in a discussion about grief, someone remarked to me that Leah’s death was like “a gift that keeps on giving”.

2 min readOct 28, 2023

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Greg Stitz

The Trouble with Tribbles (and Linens and Triggers in Grief)

The Star Trek Original Series (TOS) episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles” is a personal favorite. In fact, thinking about it, most of my…

3 min readMay 25, 2023

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Greg Stitz

Time DOESN’T Heal ALL Wounds

The saying goes that, ‘time heals all wounds’. Those of us who have experienced the death of a loved one know how hollow those words sound…

2 min readApr 28, 2023

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The Hard Work of Moving Forward and Moving

I used to enjoy moving. Leah and I moved A LOT during our marriage. We didn’t have children, so we had the freedom of choice. We were also…

3 min readDec 8, 2022

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Greg Stitz

Sometimes, Life Does Repeat

I’m not going to lie and say that being a widower has endowed me with some special wisdom or insight. Throughout these writings, I have…

2 min readOct 4, 2022

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Greg Stitz

Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Grievers

OK, the title is misleading. Sorry. I only have a few maxims. Actually, I only have three so far.

2 min readAug 26, 2022

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Greg Stitz

Growing Older, But Not Up

My late wife, Leah, was about 13 months older than I was. Over the course of our 35-year marriage, she gracefully endured more than her…

3 min readAug 25, 2022

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Seems Like Yesterday, But It Was Long Ago…

I’ve written before about how music can be a powerful trigger of grief, and, without adequate preparation, a trigger of unnecessary…

3 min readJun 28, 2022

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Triggers are EVERYWHERE in Grief

So, I’ve written before about how powerful triggers are in grief…

3 min readJun 9, 2022

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Greg Stitz

Greg Stitz

Widower; former USNR Petty Officer/Commissioned Officer [(Gunner's Mate (Guns) First Class]; former 9-1-1 dispatcher; former museum curator; merchant mariner

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