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Grief, Loss, Motherhood
May 24, 2023
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2 Minute Read

By Stefanie Kraus

It’s the Flower Food Packet that Hurts

It's the flower food packet that gets you. That little plastic packet with the powder that keeps your flowers alive…

Grief, Loss
July 13, 2022
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5 Minute Read

By Natasha Carlow

On the Day of Your Mother’s Funeral

On the day of your mother’s funeral, you will wake up and it will feel like any other day until…

Grief, Loss
October 13, 2021
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7 Minute Read

By Katherine Ward

You’re Gone, and My Heart is Broken

I didn’t ask for this. But then again, I guess no one really does. I miss you. I love you.…

Alzheimer’s Took My Mother’s Life. A Pandemic Stole Her Funeral.

Grief
September 26, 2020
1.9K Views
6 Minute Read

By Lauren Dykovitz

Alzheimer’s Took My Mother’s Life. A Pandemic Stole Her Funeral.

If you were only allowed to have ten people at your mother’s funeral, who would you pick? How would you…

When the World Didn’t Give Us a Choice, We Grieved Differently

Grief, Living
August 7, 2020
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6 Minute Read

By Brigitte Shular

When the World Didn’t Give Us a Choice, We Grieved Differently

The week before the world shut down, my mother-in-law received news that her cancer had spread to her lungs. She…

Grief
May 21, 2020
1.5K Views
7 Minute Read

By Meghan Riordan Jarvis

A Funeral Luncheon For 120

There were lots of things I didn’t help with when my dad died in June of 2017. I have acute…

Grief
March 21, 2020
1.4K Views
3 Minute Read

By Lauren Dykovitz

I’m Worried My Mom Won’t Have a Funeral

These are uncertain times. And I don’t just mean because of the pandemic. My mom is currently dying from Alzheimer’s…

Tomorrow Isn’t Promised, So We’ll Love Each Other Today

Grief, Marriage
February 4, 2020
1.5K Views
5 Minute Read

By Jenny Albers

Tomorrow Isn’t Promised, So We’ll Love Each Other Today

I listened as the minister explained that we were not gathered to mourn the loss of life, but rather to…

Grief
October 28, 2019
1.5K Views
4 Minute Read

By Chelsea Ohlemiller

The First One at the Casket

The day my mother died, everything changed. My mind became a complex mess of the heartbreaking reality of her death…

The Opioid Crisis Claimed My Daughter – But It Doesn’t Define Her

Child Loss, Grief, Journal
November 12, 2017
2.3K Views
3 Minute Read

By Alethea Mshar

The Opioid Crisis Claimed My Daughter – But It Doesn’t Define Her

She was just a newborn when I met her, and I was 16. I was dating her uncle and he…

Obituary Gone Viral: Mom Recounts Loving Her Son Despite Heroin Addiction

Grief
August 25, 2017
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3 Minute Read

By Shelley Skuster

Obituary Gone Viral: Mom Recounts Loving Her Son Despite Heroin Addiction

His picture instantly caught my eye. His grin looked far too young to be in the obituary section. But there…

Faith, Journal
March 12, 2017
1.3K Views
4 Minute Read

By Sherry White

Do You Stop For The Dead?

I was driving my son to a birthday party around noon on Saturday. We weren’t on a backroad but we…

funeral

It’s the Flower Food Packet that Hurts

On the Day of Your Mother’s Funeral

You’re Gone, and My Heart is Broken

Alzheimer’s Took My Mother’s Life. A Pandemic Stole Her Funeral.

When the World Didn’t Give Us a Choice, We Grieved Differently

A Funeral Luncheon For 120

I’m Worried My Mom Won’t Have a Funeral

Tomorrow Isn’t Promised, So We’ll Love Each Other Today

The First One at the Casket

The Opioid Crisis Claimed My Daughter – But It Doesn’t Define Her

Obituary Gone Viral: Mom Recounts Loving Her Son Despite Heroin Addiction

Do You Stop For The Dead?

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