Grief changes you in ways you never expect. Some days, it's a dull ache in your chest. Other days, it blindsides you like a sucker punch to the heart. That summer morning in my kitchen,…

I never knew my mother, and my father never spoke about her. All I knew was that she had been very beautiful, because of the picture that hung on my father's study wall, and that…

"Dad, don't worry. I'm going to work something out. But I can't visit you at all because I don't have any more PTO at work," Angelina told her father, 87-year-old Chris Harvey when he called…

You ever get a hunch about something, one of those gut feelings that just won't leave you alone? That's exactly what happened to me recently, and it set off a chain of events I never…

The ocean breeze hit differently here, away from the urgency I was used to back in Silicon Valley. I'd forgotten what it felt like to breathe without checking my phone every few seconds. My sister…

Weddings are supposed to be joyful chaos, but mine was headed straight for uncharted territory. Allison, my future mother-in-law, had been nothing but a dream during the wedding preparations. She'd offered me her vintage wedding…

I always thought my husband and I shared everything. Every silly joke, every little worry, and every dream. We knew each other's quirks and flaws, celebrated our victories together, and helped each other through rough…

Nothing can be more painful than the untimely death of a loved one. Mother of two, Janet, experienced harrowing grief as she witnessed her husband of 25 years, Thomas, buried and gone. It had been…