“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” ~Emerson Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

Letting go doesn’t mean we don’t care.  Letting go doesn’t mean we shut down. Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible—controlling that which we cannot and […]

Lynn, while working as an ICU nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital, had a patient who had been in a coma for several weeks: “While in Charlie’s room doing his daily care, I would talk to him about the weather or the daily news, or mention a movie I saw. Sometimes I teased him about what […]

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~Albert Camus Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

Good friends are like stars…you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there. Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

Happy 68th anniversary Mom and Dad! Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

When I was in elementary school in Saginaw, Michigan, back in the 1950’s, Paul Davis was my neighbor as well as classmate. Paul’s birthday is December 16th. Every year for his birthday treat he would take to school wonderful Santa face cookies, complete with raisin eyes and coconut beards. I would always make sure to […]

A passenger in a taxi leaned over to ask the driver a question and tapped him on the shoulder.  The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, and stopped just inches from a large plate glass window. For a few moments everything was silent in the […]

His wife’s graveside service was just barely finished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in the distance. A young boy looked at the pastor and calmly said, “Well, she’s there.” Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend […]

Moshe and the nanny who saved him! Gunfire…indiscriminately at passers-by on the street Grenade explosions Shrapnel Blazes Satellite connections cut Gunmen with red and blue backpacks knocking on locked hotel doors Hostages Soldiers rappelling down ropes from military choppers onto roofs … A surreal experience Hearts pounding “Run!” A city of 13 million paralyzed Rumors […]