When you’re ten years old and you’ve just lost your dad, you soften like a sponge submerged in water for the first time.
Read MoreAt the gravesite, after I shoveled the dirt over my mother's casket and heard it hit the lid, my friend Karen gave me a butterfly finger puppet.
Read MoreMy mom, and best friend, passed away suddenly a year ago at the age of 61. I feel like I am still emerging from the sadness and the void, figuring out my new normal.
Read MoreWhen my baby brother, Josh, was killed in a hit and run on New Year’s Day 2016, I bellowed sounds – not words, just guttural howls – I didn’t know my body could make.
Read MoreI have found that most people do not feel comfortable talking about loss and, more specifically, the loss of a child.
Read More“Your mom is worried about you. She doesn't think you can handle this.”
Read MorePregnancy loss sucks. There really is no other way to describe it. I have experienced two miscarriages and a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
Read MoreWhen I was 37 years old, my dad went to battle with something in his body and lost. Standing on the sidelines of this battle, I didn’t know what to do. So I made rice pudding.
Read MoreAfter a few days of dull pain in his arm, we decided to move my dad to a hospital. There, we learned that an infection at the injection point of one of his cancer treatments was slowly eating his guitar-strumming arm.
Read MoreUntil August, I lived with my 87-year-old father in the house I grew up in. But that was before the fire that claimed our home and the stroke that claimed his life.
Read MoreOn the third day of my second miscarriage, my husband bought me dessert.
Read MoreWhen my boyfriend died in a car accident at the age of 29, no one knew what to say.
Read MoreNothing can prepare you for hearing that your parent has terminal cancer.
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