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The Conversation About Death No One Wants To Have

What would your spouse do if you died? What would your children do? What would your parents or siblings do? Five years ago, my father in law passed…

He looked down and saw a world drowning in tears. A world suffocating in sorrow and plagued by the hopelessness that is born out of death. So God…

Years had been spent trying to tell my father that he needed help. He and his wife had separated, gotten back together, and separated again. His…

“I think we should leave,” I whispered to my husband through clenched teeth as my two-year old daughter, Hailey, wailed in my arms. We were at my…

To the young adults out there who have lost a parent, this one is for you. You experienced a great loss and you’re still so young with so much…

I have heard a lot from single moms and dads, widowed or otherwise, that now they “have to be the mom AND the dad.” While practically, I totally…

I am told the older you get. the more you forget. Is this true or even possible? I mean we have all forgotten where we put our phone, what day it is…

“Your mother’s gone,” my dad said as he walked into our apartment. Those words still haunt me, even 19 years later. My mother’s death…

I fold each letter and tuck them into four separate envelopes—one for each kid. Then I lick them shut. Still clenching the envelopes, I squat down…

A few months ago, I lost a mentor to a long, but courageous, fight to cancer. Watching her journey was awe-inspiring as I had always admired her but…