The Promise of Spring by Lana Golembeski It is yet another cold blustery day in Minnesota. As I look out onto the two feet of snow, I wonder if spring will ever come. In my eyes, it looks impossible. How can spring come? All I can see is snow and all I can feel is the cold. And yet, despite all of that, I know [...]

Grieving isn’t cut and dried; everyone will respond a little differently. For those of us who have lost a loved one either because of age or unexpectedly through accident or disease, grieving manifests itself in different ways and can take months to years to finally come to terms with their death.    While you may think [...]

Why are you not moving on? I am asked “why are you not moving on? It is over a year since your daughter had gone?” These words hurt me and tear me apart There is no end to the grief in my heart! “Your tomorrow will soon be filled with joy When you have a grandchild, a girl or a boy” [...]

Just last March my 48 year old daughter, mother of 5 young girls died of a cerebral hemhoridge.My older sister and 2 of my husbands brothers came over and stayed in our house for 3 weeks to help us in our grief. It did wonders. The day that they left I really broke down. I [...]

My niece, suzanne, gave birth Monday, May 12, 2008 to a 6′8″ little boy. The baby was still born. Her pregnancy was fine and she had been to the doctor the previous friday. Baby’s heart beat was strong and she discussed inducing labor with her doctor. They scheduled it for Saturday, May 17th. On Sunday [...]

Seventeen months ago our daughter died from the injuries she received in a car crash.  Since that tragic accident we have walked with grief every day.  We have also become a GRGs — grandparents raising grandchildren.  My husband and I are the legal guardians of 16-year-old, fraternal twins.  Raising them is our new life mission [...]

I had two pregnancies before so I knew how things should be. From the beginning of my third however, I felt something wasn’t right. I constantly feared that something would go wrong. I even asked my mom if she had ever lost a baby, even though I had never even thought to ask before. I [...]

Hi Gloria - Archive is such an incredible technology…..and your websites and shows comfort so often and you are a gift to bring this to the cyberspace airwaves when the pain and grief get so overwhelming.  The listening to talking is singularly more comforting for me who crave talk and connection and was used to being [...]

Today we think of each of you who have sustained a loss this year and in years past. We wish comfort and peace to each of you who have lost your mother or your child to death. We especially honor and send love to those mothers who have lost sons and daughters in war. There are no [...]

 Dear Mothers, I pray for a peaceful and happy Mothers Day for my mother and all those mothers out there who have had a child die.  May all of you take comfort in knowing that despite the fact that your child is no longer here, you remain forever their mothers and you were wonderful mothers while your children were on this earth.  A mother holds her [...]