DIRECTIONS:

Copy the questions below, paste into an email, complete each one with your thoughts, and send it to lossoftheliving@gmail.com. (Please do not use real or full names in your contribution.)  Your email address will never be posted with your contribution. If your email address is not as anonymous as you would like, you can quickly create a pseudo-email for free on gmail (amongst others) and submit it from there.

Your contribution is yours. There is no right way to interpret the questions below, and this is not an empirically designed survey. This is not for research, your information will not be sold or used in any way other than to be posted as a contribution on lossoftheliving.com. Include your own blog url if you wish. I will let you know when your contribution will be posted if you want to link up.

Answer in as little or much detail as you want. Since the foundation of Loss of the Living is that your experience matters, hopefully you will share generously about it.

Now let’s get started!  Answer honestly and intuitively as soon as you read the questions, as if we were just talking over a latte. Try not to over think, self-edit, obsess, ruminate, draft, revise, comeupwithstuffthatsoundsbettertoyouthanthetruth…. WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR AUTHENTIC STORY.

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ESTABLISHING YOURSELF (a few details that help others know what they have in common with you).

I am male.female.other.

I am … years old.

I am married.common-law.separated.divorced.widowed.single.

I have 0.1.2.3.4.5.6+ children. Here are their ages/genders:

I stayhome.workparttime.workfulltime.

I am lower.lower-middle.middle.upper-middle.upper.

I live urban.rural.remote.

I own.rent.

I completed highschool.certificate-diploma.undergrad.graduate.doctorate.post-doctorate.

I am straight.gay.other.

Of note about my ethnicity and/or cultural background: