Dealing with family traditions can take one step at a time. Many families have traditions especially around holidays. Some go caroling or host tree trimming parties at Christmas. Some feed the hungry at Thanksgiving. My family always made a big deal out of costumes and we usually had a party on Halloween. It was my son Cory's favorite holiday and it meant a lot to continue the tradition after he died. It wasn't easy but it felt necessary for a good many years. My dear friend

When someone we care about dies the world shifts...your whole sense of the world changes. It is much like an old typewriter that shifts to another line when you hit the return. That is what I have learned and continue to learn each time someone I love dies. I just woke up from a dream visit I was having with Ken Schram. He reminds me of the old typewriter too because he refused to come into the computer age for the longest time! I would walk past his office and hear him hunt

Judging how people should or should not grieve is a hot topic this week. And a huge life lesson. One news show even had a tag line that read "Grief on Trial"... this discussion is heating up because of the father in Georgia who "forgot" his baby in the backseat of his car while he went to work. Okay, so it has unfortunately happened nearly 40 times in the past year in our country people leaving kids in hot cars. I cannot figure out how someone forgets that their baby is in t