This life is so temporary. We don’t seem to get that most times. Over the last months, it has become so clear to me that we are not meant for this earth forever. We are …

Have you ever thought about what life would be like if your child had not died? I have, I do, I almost live every minute thinking of my son. I’m sure most parents who have …

Amy Maddocks lost her son Connor, to a lung infection when he was only three days old.  Having always been a writer Amy turned to writing not only to help her through her …

For three months this winter, the mid-Atlantic was locked in a hard freeze. The ground was solid, trees bare, and the flower beds were buried under dirt-encrusted snow. Birds were mobbing the feeder out back, …

Sometimes I forget how powerful poetry can be. Then I find a lovely book like Beloved On the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, and resolve to read poems more often and share them …

Evelyn Rose was my mother.  She was a devout Catholic born at the turn of the twentieth-century. 
She never questioned dogma, doctrine or the infallibility of the pope.  She believed we were put here on earth …

By Pamela Prime — ?
I awakened on Mother’s Day a few years ago with the awareness that I would be alone that day for the first time in thirty years. ?I recall lying in bed …

By Yvonne Lancaster –??
The yard was still icy near the fence where it hides from the lowering sun.? ?As a brave New Englander who shoveled her way through the long months of winter, it was …

By Alice J. Wisler –??
Some view grief as a dirty word.
It’s associated with pain, hardship, suffering, endless days of crying and never seeing the sun. It’s hard – tough on the body, spirit and mind. …

Six months is just pen point on a timeline of 52 years!!!! Yet those six months seemed like the beginning and the end of my life. Life began for me six months ago when I met Tom. Then my life ?ended? when he died. Six months out of a possible 25 years of enjoying earthly [...]