Today would have been my elder daughter’s birthday.  She was born on Thanksgiving Day decades ago.  The hospital staff was preparing a turkey dinner for the new mothers, and I was very aware of the tantalizing …

Eric Hipple, author of Real Men Do Cry, recently was interviewed for a Minnesota TV news program. Click here to see the interview. http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1201819.shtml?cat=206

When my husband and I were first married, we didn’t own any furniture.  We lived in furnished apartments for a few years and purchased a home when my husband was a resident at Mayo Clinic …

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 money to the …

In the last Open to Hope posting, “Sacred Moments with the Body after the Death,” Becky Bohan described the home-visitation after her sister-in-law’s death from breast cancer. For four hours, family members and friends bid …

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 Mitch Carmody –
When I hear of the death of a high profile individual, it always turns my head. But do I mourn?? Do I lament? Do I cry in public?? In most cases, I …

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, …

By Mitch Carmody –
In December of 1987, our 9-year-old son Kelly James died following two arduous years of fighting?brain cancer. That ensuing Christmas, we were so numb in our grief that much of it is …

Reviewed by Mitch Carmody –
If I were to recommend a movie to someone who is processing their loss, I would suggest ?Rumors of Angels” with Vanessa Redgrave. This movie is based on the book, ?Thy …

Seventeen months ago our daughter died from the injuries she received in a car crash.? Since that tragic accident we have walked with grief every day.? We have also become a GRGs — grandparents raising grandchildren.? My husband and I are the legal guardians of 16-year-old, fraternal twins.? Raising them is our new life mission [...]