Courtesy of the Washington Post | By Kelsey Francis | Photo by iStock | Originally Published 04.29.2019 | Posted 05.04.2019 In the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, winters are long and dark. The thermometer outside my kitchen window often... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of UpWorthy.com | By Evan Porter | Originally Published 10.16.2016 | Posted 02.25.2019 Lucia Maya remembers getting a phone call from her 21-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. She was in agony. A creative writing student at the University of Arizona, Elizabeth... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of the BBC.com | By Georgina Rannard | Photo by Alison Rundle | Originally Published 09.02.2018 | Posted 01.19.2019 Nobody knows how they will react when a loved one dies - in the immediate aftermath or in the days,... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of ScaryMommy.com | By Caila Smith | Image by Getty | Posted 01.09.2019 Trigger warning: child loss In my opinion, society as a whole is far too uncomfortable with using the word dead. As if it’s disrespectful to the non-living.... Continue Reading →
The Washington Post.com| By Maggie O'Farrell | Originally Published 03.07.2018 | Posted 03.11.2018 This is another topic that I need to address more: miscarriage. April 22 will mark 20 years since the worst day of my life. I always prepared myself with... Continue Reading →
Courtesy The New Times.com | By Paula Span | Originally Published 09.29.2017 | Posted 02.02.2018 Anne McBrearty Giotta doesn’t remember much of what happened on that August morning in 2013. One moment she was cursing her older son, Michael, who... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of The New York Times | By James G. Robinson | Photo by Credit Eleni Kalorkoti | Originally Published 12.07.2017 | Posted 12.15.2017 In January, our son died at the age of 5, suddenly but not unexpectedly. He had... Continue Reading →
Courtesy of HuffPost | By Ann Brenoff | Originally Posted 11.15.2017 | Published 11.20.2017 Bereavement leave needs to be more than three days off. Lori McCoy was a supervisor overseeing 911 dispatchers in San Mateo County, California, back in 1991... Continue Reading →
