“Some people may not realize this, but many of us seem to be doing much better on the outside than we are on the inside. I, for one, am tired of people saying, ‘You are doing so well with getting on with your life.’ “If they only knew what a wreck I am on the […]

One minute I was laughing, well smiling at least, feeling a connection to my family, and the next minute I was in tears and escaping outside to try and breathe, overwhelmed with grief and just wanting my sister Cindy to be with us again. Please, just one more time, I pleaded to the universe—just for […]

Dem Leben sind Grenzen gesetzt, die Liebe ist grenzenlos. Life has limits, but love has no bounds. Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

Have you experienced the death of a child? This Blog post will give your heart wings. Here is the voice of an angel coming from a six-year-old girl. Listen as Connie Talbot sings, in her Debut album Over The Rainbow, her rendition of Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You…it’s remarkable!

Here is a story that has varying versions for the beginning as people have adapted it to themselves (Thanks for passing this version on to me Ken): I arrived at the address where someone had requested a taxi. I honked but no one came out. I honked again, nothing. So I walked to the door […]

When you feel you are completely depleted, volunteer and help others. Have you heard the saying: “The healer, while healing the wounds of others, is healing his own wounds.” Loving and dying are part of the same life circle. And when you make yourself available to others, you are a part of the continuum of […]

“When you are young, 60, 70 and certainly 80 years seem like an eternity. But after you have lived it, you realize it is but a moment.” ~Elizabeth Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

These days I hear the following words (or something akin to them) in so many places (in movies, in books, in the e-newsletter I received yesterday morning promoting an upcoming movie, even during the intro of last night’s Season Eight of American Idol…): “Life is a journey, not a destination,” and, “Live each day as […]

A Blessing is in the eye of the beholder. To be able to see is a blessing to the blind. To be able to walk is a blessing to the crippled. To have a home and a family is a blessing to the homeless. And to live in freedom is a blessing to those under […]

“The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the seasons does not deny the struggle or the joy, the loss or the gain, the darkness or the light, but encourages us to embrace it all—and to find in all of it opportunities for growth. We are here not only to transform the […]