The best way to discuss death with children is to utilize everyday moments from a very young age. For example, when you see a dead bug on the sidewalk stop and look at it, discuss what happened, that... Read more >>

November 16th. It’s almost here. A night that will forever be etched in my mind. There is no going back. How I wish we could. How everyone wishes we could. It was up to us, you and me. The guilt... Read more >>

My twenty-one-year-old son had a life! I am so angry that his precious life here on this earth, was robbed from him. He left me almost four months ago. He was born on February 19, 1988, his birthday... Read more >>

I have a daughter who, at the time my son was born, was four years old. The both of them were born in the month of November in the same week. I was in labor with my daughter for three days; my son, it... Read more >>

Two weeks after my forty-fifth birthday in 2005, Mom passed away. The funeral arrangement had been made the month before the inevitable. My name had been put on all her accounts and the Power of... Read more >>

Angelique closed her sketchpad and stretched lazily. Her cat stood up and arched her back in a stretch of her own. She walked to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and paused, like always, gazing at... Read more >>

So, today marks six months since Caroline has passed away. Caroline Grace, my beautiful, precious, beloved fourteen-year-old daughter. I have been meaning to write, but there are just no words for how... Read more >>

My beloved baby Ruthie was born April 8, 2004, to my son Harry and his wife Helen. It was to be their first child and my first grandchild. We knew it was a girl. Her name had already been chosen. She... Read more >>

There are two kinds of lost loved ones, there are those who have gone home to be with the Lord, and then there are those who are just lost spiritually. I have a lot of loved ones that have died and... Read more >>

Death comes to each of us as we travel this road called life The question is—can we endure all the grief, tears and strife Our souls are wrenched with emptiness and life takes on despair How... Read more >>