by Lorinda Boyer | Jan 19, 2026 | Guest Author/Poet, Poem, Substack
This piece was written by my niece, Abigail.She wrote it in the quiet space grief leaves behind—the place where absence becomes a chair no one else sits in, where love keeps showing up even when a person can’t. I’m sharing her words with her permission, exactly as she... 
by Lorinda Boyer | Jul 30, 2025 | Bits and Pieces, Parenting, Substack
I’ve sold everything in my parents’ house. Every table, every chair, every piece they spent a lifetime planning for, saving for, fighting over and finally purchasing with pride. All of it—gone in a weekend. Sold off in bits and pieces, each item now scattered across... 
by Lorinda Boyer | Jul 21, 2025 | Bits and Pieces, Substack
Grief, resilience, and finding forward motion when the old life ends My parents lived in the same house for thirty-three years.Not my childhood home, no, they built this one the year I got married for the first time, the year I graduated high school. I never lived...
