Melissa sits in her one-room cabin and mourns the loss of her only son, Jack, who was killed three and a half years ago.She grieves for him every day.And she’s having trouble accepting the fact that Torrance, the man who killed her son, gets out of jail today…he just finished serving a two-year sentence for […]

“I am a cancer survivor. “I have been on a vent.“I have been kept alive when I would have died without medical treatment. But it was not done to the extreme. I had a very bad infection that caused a high temperature and very rapid heart rate. Thankfully I recovered, but it could have created […]

A blip from the past:…Susan was driving and it hit me—I was experiencing what others who lose loved ones do. My sister, Cindy James, was dead but people were still going about their lives…some going to work and stopping to pick up coffee and donuts on the way, some getting ready for the rest of […]

Poem for Loss by Josie O’Brien My darling as I hold you near, my heart is aching so. I know that you must go away. It is something we both know. Acceptance is the hardest part of knowing I’ll remain. For I know that when you’re free at last, I will cry with heartfelt pain. […]

“You want to know what I fear?” asks Alice, a widow, as she tips her head to the side as if listening for something. “It’s simple…it’s no more me!” You could feel the panic pouring from her veins as she explained how the movers had come to take the last of her belongings from the […]

You may have noticed I recently placed a Facebook link on the right-hand side of my Blog page…check it out…I only joined that “social utility” on July 27th 2008! After my vacation I’ll be giving all my friends and fans an opportunity to be involved in another fascinating book I’m compiling…so think about joining Facebook […]

This is the story of Jeannine, the daughter of a terminally ill father who dies while she is in the hospital giving birth. Her family does not want to tell Jeannine the bad news while she is in labor so they decide to wait until she and the new baby are resting comfortably from their […]

Early on Aug 1, 2008, climbers were killed in an ice avalanche on the world’s second-largest peak, Pakistan’s K2 (an 8,611-meter or 28,253-foot mountain) after 22 climbers, in 8 different expeditions from around the world, had come together. It is the deadliest incident at K2 since 1939. Several people are still missing while two have […]

A grieving mother shared the following: “One thing I wanted to talk to you about is things people say when a loved one dies. I know people are well meaning and I am sure I have said things when consoling others that now I find abhorrent. “The worst was and still is, ‘She is in […]

When I was walking out of the bank I overheard a woman say to a friend, “Well, these things happen you know” in reference to that friend’s loved one recently dying of a heart attack (with horrific circumstances I might add…the car flipped off the road and exploded…we all heard the sirens when the accident […]