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I always wanted an imaginary friend as a child, but my mind wouldn't stretch far enough. I envied kids who…

Our experiences are complex, but for the sake of simplicity, let's break them down into two separate categories - inside…

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” ~ Friedrich Nietzche A common question about…

I have a fuzzy memory of being a child at the grocery store with my mother. I was little, probably…

Grief is complex. I think we all can agree on this. Grief twists, turns, changes, and evolves. A number of…

It sounds almost absurd to ask, doesn't it? And yet the moment people experience a loss, one of the first…

I have a baby. She's ten months old. She was a late-in-life baby, so her only siblings—both sisters—are 10 and…

"When will I ever use this?" is a timeless refrain. Kids have been saying it since the invention of geometry. And,…

Hello to the newly bereaved. I'm sorry to meet you here in the place where loved ones leave you —…