I wanted to kick off this blog by speaking about one of my past experiences with grief - one so painful that I denied myself the ability to grieve, even though it was a major loss in my life. The loss I will be talking about is my childhood cat: Biggs. Yes, if you're imagining a very robust looking cat, then you'd be right. When I was 9, my dad found a post in the paper (yes, the paper) for a cat that just had a litter of kittens. We drove out to someone's backyard where I pi