In a couple of months, I will turn 70. I was nervous. Seventy sounded so old and I didn’t feel old.

Grieving is a messy business. It is complicated and emotionally agonizing...

When you're grieving, it's important to check in on your mental health, look out for warning signs, and build up your resilience. Guest writer Jessica Liria, shares tips on how to do this.

When I was grieving, I felt my world had stopped. My biggest adjustment was knowing that the world wouldn’t stop for me. It doesn’t stop for anyone who has lost a loved one. If you want to get back to your life, you must make changes and move along with it.

Interview with Richard Ballo, published in the Fall/Winter 2022 Avow Newsletter by  Alyssa Morlacci. A local author and community group are coming together to support Avow.

Mother’s Day recalls all things maternal – warm and wonderful hugs, children’s homemade cards, a delicious dinner, mom’s loving kisses and smiles. But Mother’s Day can be extremely challenging for children who have lost a mother.

The holidays are not necessarily a happy, merry time – especially for people whose loved one had died or left them during the past year, or even the past several years. In fact,

I write about healing to help people who are left to grieve and remember their loved ones.

I write about healing to help people who are left to grieve and remember their loved ones.

I write about grief and people ask me if I am a psychologist because of the subject matter that I write about. I am not a psychologist. I am a writer. But psychology and why people act the way they do

You may know a teenage girl who has given birth, or a teen boy who has fathered a child. I do. I knew a girl who got pregnant in high school

Know where to look. Where do writers get their ideas? Getting ideas is easy if you know where to look. The first place to look

Writing Bullets & Babies was a challenging book to write for several reasons. The first is two years of research material to organize into the right chronological order. Verification

Chanel No. 5. It is a perfume name that I know. I can't recall what it smells likes, yet I was married to a woman who wore it. I can recall the woman: her smile, her laugh, her facial expressions, and the way she

The holidays are not necessarily a happy, merry time, especially for people whose loved one has died during the past year, or even the past several years. In fact, if you're

After suffering the death of a beloved, most of us see no possible way we can recover or ever again find any joy in living. Mental and emotional darkness engulfs us. The moment