acceptance Archives - Karen DeBonis

Making Meaning—the Sixth Stage of Grief

By Karen DeBonis | April 29, 2020 |

I had alluded to a sixth stage of grief last week, but I didn’t want to get into it, as I thought my blog was already too long. I didn’t want to lose you. Sadly, I did lose someone.

This time, I will take a stand.

By Karen DeBonis | August 31, 2017 |

Over 30 years ago, when I worked in Washington, D.C., I took the Metro to work. It’s always crowded on a subway during rush hour, and you get used to being jostled by people, bodies crammed together. But one morning on the platform, I thought a man purposefully touched my butt with his hand. I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t sure. But then I watched the nicely dressed middle-aged man as he walked through the crowd, hands at his sides. As he passed several women, he distinctly turned his hand out to brush their back sides.