Karen V. Johnson, a successful judge promised a lifetime appointment, was sure she would continue living the same way indefinitely. But when her son d...
Bright Lights, Prairie Dust
Little House on the Prairie personified a simple, pioneering and wholesome lifestyle, bringing love and family into our living rooms. It is still love...
Crash
When Rachel Michelberg's husband crashed into a vineyard, suffering a severe brain injury, she'd been thinking about leaving the marriage and even ent...
The Wolf's Curse
An unconventional childhood led Jessica Vitalis, circuitously, to a career as a young adult fiction writer. In exploring themes of death and grief, do...
Grief is My Side Hustle
When both of Meghan Riordan Jarvis' parents died within a short period of time she experienced what could only be called Post Traumatic Stress. As she...
Saved at the Sea Wall
Do you remember where you were when two jets plowed into the World Trade Center buildings? If you were at ground zero, you have a particularly harrowi...
Life Mastery
What makes it possible for some of us to create the lives we dream of while others are held back by our life stories? Sherry Fernandez was always gear...
Mindsets for Navigating Autism
Although a diagnosis of autism is not, by itself, a loss, many losses come as a result. Most autistic kids are bullied, kept out of activities they wo...
Encore Advice for Future Corpses
How does a nurse relate to death. What has she learned by being close to the people who are experiencing the end of life? And how are her personal exp...
The Art of Reassembly
The impact of Peg Conway's mother's death, when she was just 7, reverberated through her life, impacting her sense of safety, her reactivity and her s...