Our 12-year-old Lab/Vizsla mix had been going downhill for months. Degeneration in her hips and spine caused her to have more and more trouble getting around and more and more potty accidents in the house. Making the decision with our family vet to let her go peacefully and prevent increasing pain was difficult but necessary. Mia, who…
Are you looking for children’s books about death, grief, and loss? You’ve come to the right place. Children’s books are often one of our best resources as parents, teachers, and caregivers in challenging situations. When tragedy strikes, literature sometimes holds the key to opening difficult conversations. I used books to help my daughters understand death,…
I was honored to deliver the eulogy at my maternal grandmother, Myrle Dee Grubbs Benton‘s funeral. In her eulogy, I talked about nine important things my late grandmother taught me. 9 Important Things My Late Grandmother Taught Me My grandmother was a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, and a friend. But, most of…
I will never forget the moment I walked in to find my mother had taken her last breath. I stopped in my tracks on the nursing home’s linoleum floor, asking my father, who was right behind me, “Is she dead?” Slowly, I backed away, up against the wall across from her bed, as I stared…
My mother forgot my seventeenth birthday. My junior prom had been the evening before, and I slept over at a friend’s house. When I walked through the front door with my overnight bag that Sunday morning, I fully expected a “Happy Birthday” greeting from my family, yet I received none. Exhausted from the late-night shenanigans…
