October 15 is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. This year marks my fourth honoring it, and this post is a special dedication to Share’s Walk of Remembrance and the Wave of Light—in support of infertility and pregnancy loss and shattering the … Continue reading
We text daily a lot of the time. We video chat twice a month. But all four of us have only met in person twice. The first time last May, when one loss was so raw and so wrong in the way it … Continue reading
While mowing the lawn a few weeks ago, Ryan noticed a nest of three brown spotted eggs in the tree in our backyard. We swiftly commenced our bird-watching self-education. The mother’s tell-tale orange beak indicated a family of Northern Cardinals had … Continue reading
For about a week after my colleague Leslie Forman and I redesigned this site and redirected its message, I sat still, anxious to officially announce it. Why the hesitation? Oh, because grief advocacy is vulnerable work. The front-facing reframe—that my strongest voice is derived from … Continue reading
To suggest it’s been a good year for grief is to say that it’s also been a bad year for loss. And we’re only half way through. Loss marks the lives of those who remain every year. Lately, however, people … Continue reading