MISS Foundation Families Speak Out About Their Very Personal Losses The Unjust Politicking of Stillbirth by Feminist Groups:  A Response to ...

"In relationship to one dead you have criterion whereby you can test yourself... it is one's duty to love [those] we do not see...w...

Today, I took a seven-mile journey by foot to the Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, Arizona with my daughter's ashes in my pack. I've never ...

You must have chaos within you  in order to give birth  to a dancing star. Frederich Nietzsche The universe, filled with nebulae, black hole...

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. Richard von Weizsaecker I picked up a new book l...

The world breaks us all,  and afterward some are stronger in those broken places. Ernest Hemingway I remember the day with piquant detail. T...

There is nothing so whole as a broken heart. Mendel of Kotzk This quote reminds me of what I've learned during my grief journey....

Nobody knows everything and everyone knows something. In ancient mythology, the final apotheosis of a Taoist who had transformed his body in...

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of wh...

To be alone is one of the greatest evils for a person. William James I've always appreciated James' idea of loneliness as a threat t...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross began this fight in the 1960's; before her death, she told me how it frustrated her that some physicians- even ps...

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can...

The most secure prisons are those we construct for ourselves. Gordon Livingston, M.D. How does one live i...

For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other... Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and d...

Today was glorious.  I woke up to perfect Sedona weather, the sun raying, birds singing, and Brewer Trail beckoning. Ingrid an...

To be alone is one of the greatest evils. William James Psychopharmaceuticals are plentiful here in the United States as a way to help indiv...

When my daughter died in 1994, I heard nothing from the hospital staff after our discharge. Instead, I returned to my home where grief had t...

My favorite artist is Kaethe Kollwitz . I will never forget the first moment I saw her work. I felt something inside me stir. It was a conne...