I received the wonderful news that Oil for Your Lantern: Sharing Light After the Death of a Child won the Small Books category and was selected as a finalist in the Grief Category for the 19th annual awards! I was especially thankful that the publisher Lawrence Knorr of Sunbury Press supported the small, intimate 4×6 …
My collection of essays was published by Sunbury Press in November 2024! Hans von Balthasar (d. 1988) wrote that “truth is symphonic” which is a phrase I quickly copied down in my journal when I first heard it. I see this collection as one light to add to the symphony of light that helps to …
The Compassionate Friends Spring 2023 webzine was recently posted. My essay “About Your Room” was included along with other poems and reflections for bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings, and all who love children who have died too soon. The PDF can be downloaded directly. These magazines are free resources, please feel free to share!
Thank you to The Compassionate Friends for including my essay “Limp Stockings and Empty Chairs” in the Winter 2022 edition of their magazine linked here in full. The issue is packed with helpful articles and poems to help manage the joys and sorrows of the season. As many have written, we are a grief illiterate …
Some thoughts as we enter the season of remembrance. Read it in full here. I have come to appreciate that memory lives in a separate space and at times Mack and I share a moment. Often I laugh out loud and “re-member” Mack’s great laugh and feel his warm spirit because we always laughed together. As …
An essay from Elizabeth recently posted on OpenToHope.com. It has been six and a half years since our son, Mack, died suddenly on New Year’s Eve 2012, just shy of his ninth birthday. As the many of us who learn to live newly after loss, we take it on as a part of our lives and …