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A Holiday Story About Grief
John and Sarah Wilson and their kids, Lisa and Eddie, felt lucky to live a multi-generational family. Grandma Wilma had been living with them since she had her mild stroke […]
Grieving Through the Holidays
Have you lost someone important to you and are grieving through the holidays? Grieving someone you love who’s died is hard enough. Trying to do it during the holidays can […]
Ordinary Magic: Rituals for Grief and Gratitude
Magic: the power to apparently influence the course of events by using mysterious powers. Did you believe in magic when you were little? Did you ever stop? When we were […]
My Mother’s Grief
At the age of 48, after 28 years of being a high school teacher, a mother and a wife, my mother was alone. She jumped into redecorating our house and […]
Walking with Grief
It is impossible to live with loss without walking with grief. Some suffering is unavoidable and necessary to survive being broken open. But when we try to ignore or minimize […]
Breathing Your Own Air
“Don’t keep me alive on life support; I don’t want to be a vegetable.” When you ask most people how they want to die, they say, “just don’t keep me […]
Clean Up After Yourself
Have you ever thought about the day after? There are decisions to be made now. Clean up after yourself, so it’s easier on your loved ones later… The people you […]
UNDERSTAND HOSPICE NOW
Do you really understand hospice… and what it means? On paper, we say “it’s a way of caring for dying people and their families that addresses physical, emotional and spiritual […]
The Conversation in Action
CIVHC Connect: Caring and Preparing for Serious Illness Earlier this year, I presented with two colleagues at a day-long conference — CIVHC Connect: Caring and Preparing for Serious Illness. The […]
My Mother Really Really Loved Her Life
My mother was the most successful human being I ever met. She had shortcomings and she knew about them. She had hard times but she let them go so she […]
Life and Death and Mud
Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Little kids splash in the mud. They don’t hold back. They don’t want to sleep because they might miss something. They […]