While most others love summer for its daytime pleasures, such as beach time, golf, picnics and other family outings, personally, I like it at night… on my deck after most others have long gone to bed. I gaze at the…
Death ended Jonathan’s life but if didn’t end his relationship with me. I learned to keep him present in my life by doing outreach in his name. Countless books have been written on the process of mourning and what’s become…
They say that childbirth is a pain you forget, but nobody ever says that about child death. Losing your child is like having a piece of broken glass jammed into your heart. Permanently. Over the years, the sharp edges are often worn smooth,…
As you lay there sleeping, gently lay your head, dreams of your future dancing through my head. At one, you’d be walking Scurrying around, getting into mischief, feet firmly on the ground. At two, your words start forming,…
PEOPLE SEEM TO FORGET about the dads in grief. They will ask, “How is your wife?” Not realizing that his heart has been ripped out of his chest. This happens often. But what is important to remember is that both…
In his younger years, Tom loved stuffed animals. Much like me when I was his age, he connected with them on an emotional level. Each one was given an appropriate name and had its own personality, and the bookcases in…
Grief has surrounded me most of my adult life starting with my very loved father dying suddenly of a heart attack at age 45. Professionally I worked with hospice and then for 10 years with pediatric oncology where I fell…
My daughter died 22 years ago. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about her, even after all this time. Sometimes she is a passing thought and sometimes something happens that reminds me of her and the fact…
When our seemingly healthy 14-year-old daughter Laura died within days of being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor, my husband Ron and I were shocked and distraught. Our sheltered family life in Bayside wasn’t supposed to unfold this way. We…
I had a visitation dream from my son a month ago. The message in this dream was so profound for me I don’t think I will ever be able to go back to thinking about this subject the way I…
