Help Kids Cope With Grief With the Heaven Phone
All children will at some time deal with death. This may be a pet or a human, someone close to them or close to one of their friends. Parents often…
Read moreAll children will at some time deal with death. This may be a pet or a human, someone close to them or close to one of their friends. Parents often…
Read moreThe Price of Admission, Embracing a Life of Grief and Joy, by Liz Petrone is a poignant memoir, It’s a book about being a mother and being a daughter, about…
Read moreMy uncle, Donald George Hopkins, was born in Scranton on August 9, 1941 and died in Mexico on September 24, 2020. In between, he lived a full and interesting life.…
Read moreGuest post by Donna Venturi A week ago today I lost my brother, Lee Bennett Hopkins. Lee was my first male love. He was a big brother to Donald and…
Read moreEarlier this month, I lost a dear friend, one of those for whom the term “friend” is truly inadequate, one who feels like family, but with whom we share…
Read moreWhen I wrote about endings, I was thinking of the next generation, the upcoming one, who are no longer children. About the end of a chapter in their lives, and…
Read moreIt is curious that these topics keep on showing up: on my Facebook newsfeed, on TV, in the news. I have started writing about this, then abandoned the idea several…
Read moreI have been in this place before. Life has been slower, heavier. I have been in a fog. Things necessary to continue living have gone on; a lot has been…
Read moreIt was ten and a half years ago that we rescued each other. I had been in a dark place for months, since the death of our prior dog, who…
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