I get asked that a lot.  I really don't have an answer.  Yesterday was the first anniversary of my father's passing.  That in itself is hard enough but like some demented commercial my life has been "But wait there's more".   A beloved uncle and a brother in law died quite unexpectedly in January.  But wait there's more.  My mom passed in June.   There were a few others in there.  The grandfather of my husband.  A couple more in laws of my older sister.   My family is numb from grief.   So how am I?  Numb? Tired?  I don't know.  I get up and go to work.  I function each day.  There are little joys mixed in with the overwhelming grief.  Therapy helped a bit and the antidepressants as well.  Medicating grief is not necessarily the best way to handle it but I must keep going.  In a final attempt to stop irritating my friends and family with this need to keep talking about it until I am through the grieving process, I have turned to you, the online grief community.  Thanks for listening.