The beautiful flowering tree planted in Nina’s memory on Memorial Day a year short of a decade ago (by her favorite cousins) looked so regal and smelled so delicious yesterday. I like to think it …

Around Memorial Day, many people go to the cemetery to spruce up their loved ones’ graves. They want visitors to see that they are nicely cared for. I don’t  have to do that because I know I …

Alice J. Wisler founded Daniel’s House Publications after her son Daniel died from cancer treatments in 1997.  She is the author of memorial cookbooks Slices of Sunlight, Down the Cereal Aisle, and novels that pertain …

The beautiful flowering tree planted in Nina’s memory on Memorial Day a year short of a decade ago (by her favorite cousins) looked so regal and smelled so delicious yesterday. I like to think it …

The horrific tragedy at Fort Hood has sent our nation into mourning, and many want to know how to express their condolences and support to the families left behind. Reaching out to express condolences is …

By Carol O’Dell –
Amelia Island, FL, has an angel. It stands just past the intersection of 8th and Atlantic. The childlike face lifts toward the sky, arms outstretched as though holding something invisible, and bronzed wings …

By Harriet Hodgson –
After my daughter died in February of 2007 my husband and I looked for ways to remember her. We did the usual things — had a memorial service, told stories, and gave …

By Sharon Greenlee –
When you see or hear Memorial Day, what are the first visuals and words that pop into?your mind?? I see the cemetery, the funeral, my mother’s grave. I hear my grandmother’s?mournful crying, …

Online community offers memorials, suggestions and resources for honoring U.S. military personnel who have died in service
San Francisco, Calif. ? May 20, 2009 ? Memorial Day is known as the unofficial start of the summer …

By Terri Saeed –
A hope chest filled with a wedding dress from 1940, countless photo albums, a high school scrapbook from 1931, a memory book with witty quotations from depression era teenagers, college transcripts, baby …

So, a few months back, I gave a talk about sibling loss at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. As you might imagine, there tend to be quite a few bereft siblings in the audience at …

By Anne Hamilton, M.F.A. –
On November 25, Gerald Schoenfeld, the longtime Chairman of the Shubert Organization, suffered a heart attack in his Manhattan home. Shock waves went through the Broadway community. I was devastated by …

By Carol O’Dell
Creating a meaningful memorial service for your loved one is cathartic, and you don’t?have to wait until your loved one passes to begin to think about what they — and you — want …

By Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT –
We’ve barely made it through the holidays of December and January, and now the stores are filled with hearts and flowers and candy, all of it in celebration of the …

By Diana Gardner-Williams -

We never truly know how our partner will react when a baby or pregnancy has come to an end. Most likely our husbands will grieve and display sorrow in a different manner.
After …

My baby boy Mason Gage Nunez drown in my mother in laws pool on June 8, 2008. We were all having a good time…..he’s always had an unholy fear of the water and that …