They say life imitates art. 

I sincerely hope that isn't true. 

When my 18-year-old daughter unexpectedly died in her sleep two months after I signed my first solid book deal for a novel about a family that lost a child, that is exactly what I was afraid of. 

Which b...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. When trauma and loss collide, such as in the unexpected death

of your healthy child, such as in the finding of their lifeless body, such as in the utter implosion of your life and being, PTSD is the natural outcome. But nothing about livi...

When you lose someone, everyone begins talking about the stages of grief, ticking them off to you one by one: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I'm not a fan of this grief theory, particularly because the woman who wrote about it, Elisabeth Kubler-...

The grieving mind is a swirling, bitter soup of unanswerable questions, a miserable cocktail of

what ifs and if onlys. My mind is steeped daily in an onslaught of questions so painful, so terrifying to ask and even more terrifying to answer, that they can only be whispe...