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Where Do Broken Hearts Go: Whitney Houston Dead at 48

2/11/12 6:48pm by Morgan Shanahan
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Whitney Houston - Image: © William Regan/Globe Photos/ZUMAPRESS.com

Whitney Houston has passed away at the age of 48. The performer was pronounced dead just before 4pm today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel despite efforts to resuscitate her, according to an LAPD spokesman.  Read more >

The Opposite of Happiness: The Underside of Joy

1/18/12 9:59am by sassymonkey
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Sleeper Wave Sign

Seré Prince Halverson's debut novel, The Underside of Joy, is the breathtaking story of what happens when your world changes in an instant. A rogue wave takes Ella's husband, Joe, and in an instant everything changes. For three years, Ella has been the only mother their children have known. When Joe's ex-wife Paige shows up at his funeral, intent on reclaiming her children, it becomes clear that nothing will ever be the same again.  Read more >

Living Grief (and Love) During The Holidays

12/22/11 9:00am by Stacy Morrison
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Angel ornament

I took the helm of all the elaborate Christmas dinner planning and cooking in 2010, when my mother finally admitted she wasn't able to stand as long as all that festivity required. We opened a bottle of Dom Perignon to toast my parents' 50th wedding anniversary, which they'd celebrated just 9 days before. A landmark, a lifetime together. That was my brother's and my last Christmas with our parents. Sudden and cruel illnesses took them over and took them away in the six months that followed. And so last year my brothers and I faced our final Christmas at their home, before we packed everything our parents had lovingly collected over the years into an armada of boxes and sent them off to be auctioned away to strangers.  Read more >

Quiet Treasures

12/6/11 2:02pm by lyndagrace
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Featured NaBloPoMo Post

Who was this mysterious man who was known to us as Joseph, Joe, or Joey, or Bro, or Uncle Joe, or Hon?From the time he was a little baby, I figured out how to "read" Joe.  I learned what each subtle body movement meant.  His facial expressions were actually quite loud.  Sometimes his eyes alone would tell a whole story.His teachers would say to me,"Joseph is a good student, but he is so quiet."  Read more >

Author Anne McCaffrey Dead at 85

11/23/11 11:43am by lauriewrites
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Anne McCaffrey by Anna Creech

Prolific and famed sci-fi/fantasy author Anne McCaffrey, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, died Monday. She was 85.  Read more >

Every Scar Tells A Story

11/4/11 2:29am by avflox
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Cracks in a vase (Flickr)

We never talked about the cancer. She had described herself as a cancer patient once, and I knew about the work she did to fundraise for a cure, but I never thought of her in this context. Our time together was something cancer would never penetrate. It was a Faraday cage that resisted the impertinent discharges of worry, doubt, anxiety and fear. In it, there was nothing but us at our most essential, our most free.  Read more >

Halloween Needs More Death

10/30/11 8:10pm by Piper Hoffman
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Death

As Halloween approaches, it brings a tide of childhood memories: handmade princess costumes, the joy of free candy, the rule among my peers to hold our breath when passing a cemetery so we wouldn't ‘catch’ death. As children, it seemed that simple not to die, and secular America hasn't outgrown that belief. But by ignoring and hiding death, we remain helpless against our fundamental fear of it. Through my practice of mindfulness meditation I have discovered just how fearful and resistant I am to the concept of death as I develop a mindful approach to facing it.  Read more >

Dear Seal Beach: Lessons From Littleton

10/21/11 11:40am by Heather Clisby
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Seal Beach

[Editor’s Note: On October 12, a man walked into the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, California and killed eight people. It is Orange County's worst mass killing.] Image: Rose Palmisano/The Orange County Register via ZUMA Press. Dear Seal Beach,  Read more >

When A Mother Loses A Child

9/9/11 11:48am by Stacy Morrison
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a grieving woman

The unimaginable happens. A mother loses a child. This happened just now. To Anna See who blogs at An Inch of Gray. And because we are all so connected, by our stories and our words and our electronics and our RSS feeds and Tweets, the news goes around like an electric shock, touching not only those who knew her, her family, her writing, but also spinning out to so many of those who didn't.  Read more >

How to Manage Your Career or Business When Personal Crises Arise

8/12/11 7:30am by paulag01
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MAnaging business during illness

All the business and career advice in the book is great. But, what happens when you're on the path to where you want to go when life intrudes in a major way? Do you stay on the path? Can you do it all? Do you have to give up the dream? I had to walk this very path last year myself and I learned a lot about myself and business in the process.  Read more >