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Current Events Faith

What the Living Can Learn From the Dying

April 16, 2015

Kara Tippetts dared to call breast cancer a 'great story' — and in doing so, she flew in the face of every fear I've harbored since my mom's death.

Grief & Loss

Gifts My Brother Gave Me

November 27, 2013

Since Jim died, I've been unwrapping 39 years of memories like gifts without a shelf life. Losing my mom was an unusual gift too — the space she left was filled by the siblings I came to know and love more deeply.

Faith Grief & Loss

Turning 4

March 1, 2013

My son's birth was my rebirth. Through the trauma of a forceps delivery and postpartum depression, God shouted loud enough to reach a woman who had gone deaf to him.