“I saw the article in the newspaper last year about your daughter, Lauren, dying”, she said.  “Oh, my friend, I finally get a chance to hug you!!!”  …The flood gates […]

“He died”, “he passed away”, or “he left me.”   “Giving up” or “after evaluating her options, she made a different choice for her treatment.”  …Do you believe that words matter […]

Want to know how to help a grieving parent?  How to talk to a grieving parent? Browsing the book of faces this evening, I didn’t expect to be walloped.  AGAIN.  […]

How to Write an Obituary Life happens.  Death happens.  I have lived through the experience of loss multiple times.  In finding ways to cope, I have discovered what some have called […]