Monthly Archives: January 2019

We live in a noisy world. Music, television, voices and the hum of electricity tunnel into our brains and distract us from hard questions and painful circumstances. We live in a busy world. If I&#8… Source: The Silent Joy of … Continue reading →

Dear Barbara, our doctor says my husband will most likely die before six months. He has diabetes, dementia, is on dialysis which doesn’t help him, has not since he started last February. Doctor says he also has disease of the … Continue reading →

I don’t know what the future holds for my daughter’s health, but I do know this: I will always fight for her, no matter what. Source: My Daughter Has a Genetic Disorder So Rare, Even Her Doctors Don’t Understand It … Continue reading →

It’s OK to mourn the life you thought you were going to have — even though you’d never trade it for the child you have now. Source: To the Mom of a Chronically Ill Child: I Get It, and I’m … Continue reading →

Widows hear it again and again, “You’re so strong”. The truth is, you may not have a front seat to our hurt and grief. We’re not strong; we’re surviving. Source: For Everyone Telling Me I’m “So Strong” – Young Widowed … Continue reading →

A blog about brain cancer, the loss of a child, and the grace of God. Source: The Sullivan Four: Manna for Each Day

My mother and I had to survive the festivities somehow, says New York-based writer Jean Hannah Edelstein Source: The first Christmas after my father’s death, I took my grief out on a pavlova | Jean Hannah Edelstein | Opinion | … Continue reading →

Back at my desk by day four: how I grieved at work Source: I feel my mother’s absence everywhere | Gemma Carey | Opinion | The Guardian