On January 2024, my amazing mother unexpectedly passed away. Since that dark day of January 11, my life has not been the same. At times I feel fine and sometimes, without warning, I am overcome with crippling emotions. I have too many thoughts and feelings about everything and have found it therapeutic to write about them. So this is my journey of navigating the unpredictable waves of grief that come from losing the most important woman in my life and remembering her dearly.

“Olas” are waves in Spanish and “de” means of. Together it reads waves of grief.

The bilingual nature is a nod to my mom. I’m grateful she encouraged me to learn and speak Spanish from an early age.

“Grief exists because love existed first”