May our obituaries someday say--preferably after we're dead, of course--that we lived in peace, in love, and mostly in grace.  ~ Jaime ...

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.  ~...

Best selections from  Grief Healing's Twitter stream  this week: Joanne Cacciatore's Arizona farm is drawing mourning parents from a...

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.  ~...

Best selections from  Grief Healing's Twitter stream  this week: While pathologizing the normal can be harmful, so too can its reverse: ...

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.   ~ Miguel de Cervantes When my father died of a heart attack several years ago, ...

Best selections from  Grief Healing's Twitter stream  this week: Grief is not exclusive to death; other losses occur more often througho...

[Reviewed and updated November 12, 2024 ] There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressible- a wound that will...

Best selections from  Grief Healing's Twitter stream  this week: Now I worry that — by perpetuating false ideas about how one should gri...

[Reviewed and updated February 24, 2025 ] Protective parents tend to not die with their children in the room, even if that child is seventy ...