I don’t go out of my way to read books about taking care of your parents in their old age. I have read a few books on the subject, but I found the majority just a little too depressing for me. I am fifty-eight years...

A Friend in Grief: Simple Ways to Help by Ginny Callaway is a wonderful, heartfelt, gonna-make-you-cry book about how to be there for a friend who has lost a loved one. It will appeal to those who have felt the heart-wrenching loss of a loved...

Widowed: Moving Through the Pain of Widowhood to Find Meaning and Purpose in Your Life Again by Joann Filomena is a short book, and I expected to finish reading it in just a few hours. Instead, I found myself needing a day to digest each...

Jum & Muz: I Forget – A Care Giver's View Of Alzheimer's by Mary Ellen Connelly is the story of Jim, whose life was cut short by the cruel disease of Alzheimer's. The book chronicles their story, their trials, tribulations, and turmoil. The gradual changes...

The death of a parent is, for most of us, one of life’s major challenges. In a moving and beautifully written tribute to her late father, Lisa J Shultz’s A Chance to Say Goodbye drives home the importance of accepting the inevitability of death, and...

How prepared are we to handle the death of a loved one, legally, emotionally, and spiritually? Paths Through Despair To Gratitude and Faith by Anita Pernell-Arnold is an uplifting and useful tool for healing from the death of a deep love and how we can...

Transfer of Pain: After Suicide, A Journey Of Healing by R.J. Belle is a book that charts a path to travel after losing a loved one to suicide. Suicide is a common reality in our fast-paced, competitive world, and when it happens, those who are...

I Remember the Time... by Kim Hemphill is a poignant story of a young boy who was born on the wrong side of the tracks. His mother was severely disabled and his father was both physically and mentally abusive towards him. His hero, his elder...

There are some things I know that I take for granted. First and foremost, among these things is my health. I have been lucky. Through a life full of travel and adventure, even armed combat, I have always had my health. I have never even...

Diana Sims bares her soul as she shares her experience of losing her third son just days before he was due to be born. Her book, Forever King: Surviving The Loss of My Unborn Child, reaches well beyond the concept of a heartbreaking memoir. ...