The Remembering Rooms
It was a Saturday, the first in a long time, when I wasn’t out of town, or too tightly scheduled to consider a variation in the day’s routine. I put the regional newspaper in the front seat of my car when I left for my exercise class, thinking that, after class I’d...Celebrating A Life
It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon in Newport Oregon and the “comfortable, modern lobby” of the Holiday Inn Express is uncharacteristically busy. The printer/copy machine has been in continual operation for a while as three 20 something young people, and what appears to...Mass Shootings and Support for Those That Grieve
In my online classes with people from across the country and beyond it, I have participants check in by mentioning “What ‘s Up?” for them, what’s top-of-mind? Could be a snowstorm headed their way, celebratory feelings of a project going well, or a mishap that...How to Handle that “Merry and Bright” Time of Year
Articles on “getting through the holidays” proliferate this time of year in newspapers, magazines, and online newsletters. Their appeal is to those who have lost someone special in the past year and who now must face familiar family rituals that will seem anything but...
