Conversation Starters for your Kids
The old standard “How was your day?” brings eye rolls, maybe an unintelligible grunt, or a monotone one syllable response. What can parents ask to…
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October 1, 2021
Grief in Children
Grief takes many forms--in all of us. For children, especially, this can be confusing both to them and to their parents/caregivers. Our goal here is…
September 29, 2021
Athlete Spotlight: Andrea Kent
Andrea Kent was not a runner until 2000, when her husband of 20 years died unexpectedly. She began to run in order to cope with…
April 27, 2017
Not Safe But Good – July 2015
We began our group discussion with the normal “ice-breaker” small talk stuff. How long was your trip, how did you get connected with Inheritance of…
July 7, 2015
The Rudeness of Grief
I created this blog – From My Heart to Yours – a couple of years ago as a tool of self-expression and to get the…
July 6, 2015
Singing Isn’t Just for the Birds
6:00 a.m. The deck is shady and cool. The coffee is hot. The neighborhood is quiet except for my cardinal friend singing at the top…
June 23, 2015
How to Help Someone Who Is Grieving
Sheryl Sandberg shared movingly about what she has learned about motherhood through grief. But how do we help someone who is grieving? We don’t know…
December 15, 2014
A Son-in-Law’s Grief – January 2014
At approximately 5:15 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, my mother-in-law called me on my mobile phone as I was driving out of the parking garage…
January 24, 2014
Grieving in Downton: What we can Learn
Sometimes there are television shows that teach us something meaningful about life & offer nuggets of truth that we can tuck away. Downton Abbey is…
January 8, 2014
Great is Thy Faithfulness – June 2013
We often think of grief as a response to death, but grief comes from other losses too. Families facing a young parent’s illness grieve the…
June 17, 2013
