SHERRI MCCARTHY

This will be the most difficult holiday season of my life. I lost my dad in July 2017 after a 62-day battle with stage 3 lung cancer. My mother passed away 17 years ago this month. My father-in-law also died 10 years ago this month and two of my three siblings are celebrating the first birthdays without my dad, you guessed it: this month. It is a confluence of all things crappy. This Christmas is the first without either parent in my life. If I could skip it altogether, I wou