Blog

Scattering Ashes: Where It's Allowed, State by State, and How to Do It Kindly
Scattering Ashes: Where It's Allowed, State by State, and How to Do It Kindly
Two simple wedding bands resting in a small handmade cedar heart-shaped box on a sunlit windowsill
What to Do With Your Wedding Ring After Your Spouse Dies
Two rocking chairs on a porch at sunset, a cardigan on one, a cup of tea and wildflowers on the table between them
Love After Loss: Dating, Remarriage and the Fear of Grieving Again
“A gentle wave reaching a worn heart drawn in the sand at dawn, with wildflowers growing around driftwood.
The Stages of Grief: What They Are, What They Aren't, and What Grief Is Really Like
A quiet desk with a sympathy card, flowers and a calendar with days circled, in soft morning light
Bereavement Leave Explained: What the Law Says and How to Ask
Advance Directives Explained Simply: What They Are, What to Put in Them, and How to Make Yours Count
Advance Directives Explained Simply: What They Are, What to Put in Them, and How to Make Yours Count
A sheet of paper and a pen on a kitchen table in morning light, with tea, reading glasses, white wildflowers and two chairs facing each other.
Who Has the Right to Make Funeral Decisions? A State-by-State Guide
When an Employee Dies: What Managers and Small Businesses Should Do
When an Employee Dies: What Managers and Small Businesses Should Do
Two folded sympathy note cards with painted flowers and pencil leaves on a sunlit desk, beside cream envelopes, a pen and a sprig of eucalyptus
The Sympathy Card Maker: Printed Cards That Sound Like Your Team
A cream rotary phone, an open notepad and pen, and a cup of tea on a wooden kitchen table, with wildflowers and a sunny window behind.
Who to Call When Someone Dies, and What Can Wait
The Aftercare Letter Maker: A First Year of Letters From Your Funeral Home
The Aftercare Letter Maker: A First Year of Letters From Your Funeral Home
The Obituary Helper: Write an Obituary One Choice at a Time
The Obituary Helper: Write an Obituary One Choice at a Time
The Hospice Letter Maker: A Year of Bereavement Letters, Fitted to Each Person
The Hospice Letter Maker: A Year of Bereavement Letters, Fitted to Each Person
How to Write a Eulogy: A Gentle Guide From First Words to the Podium
How to Write a Eulogy: A Gentle Guide From First Words to the Podium
A soft watercolor of a kitchen table in morning light, with an open notebook, a pen, an old family photograph and a cup of tea.
How to Write an Obituary: A Gentle, Step-by-Step Guide
A soft watercolor of a quiet cemetery in morning light, with a pale cloth over a simple headstone and small stones resting on top.
How to Plan a Jewish Unveiling: A Step-by-Step Guide for Families, With or Without a Rabbi
A kitchen table by a frosted winter window with a cup of coffee, a small basket of envelopes and one strand of warm lights on the sill.
Getting Through January After a Loss: When the Holidays Are Over and the Grief Isn't
A soft watercolor of a kitchen table in winter light, with an open recipe box, a rolling pin, Christmas cards, an old address book and an unfinished red stocking.
When Mom Was the One Who Made Christmas: Who Carries It Now
A soft watercolor of a quiet cemetery path in morning light, with a folded cloth and wildflowers on a stone bench and a simple headstone in the distance.
The One-Year Gathering: Unveilings, Headstone Dedications and Memorial Masses
A small birthday cake with one candle beside an old family photograph and daisies on a sunlit kitchen table, painted in soft watercolor.
Reaching the Age They Were When They Died
A watercolor of a small birthday cake with one unlit candle beside a framed photo, a handwritten card and wildflowers on a sunlit kitchen table.
When They Died on a Birthday or a Holiday: Living With a Day That Has Two Names
A wall calendar with one date softly circled above a lit candle, a small framed photo and a cup of tea on a kitchen counter in morning light
The Anniversary of a Death: Getting Through the Day, Year After Year
A soft watercolor of a lit Christmas tree in a quiet room at evening, with a candle and a framed photograph on a side table and snow falling outside the window.
When They Died at Christmas: Living With an Anniversary That Lands on the Holiday
A softly lit Christmas tree by a snowy window, stockings on the mantel with folded notes tucked in one, and a candle beside a framed photograph
Christmas After a Loss: Getting Through the First One Without Them
Rows of small glowing candles on a wooden table beside an open book of handwritten names and an evergreen sprig, in a quiet room at dusk.
How to Host a Holiday Remembrance Gathering
A Thanksgiving table at golden hour with one empty chair, a flower on its plate, a lit candle, a framed photo and a handwritten recipe card.
Thanksgiving After a Loss: The Empty Chair at the Table
A lit candle and two glasses of sparkling cider on a windowsill at night, soft fireworks in the distance, a cardigan draped over an empty chair.
Grief and New Year's Eve: Getting Through Midnight Without Them
A lamp-lit armchair by a window at dusk, with a cup of tea, a phone and a handwritten list on the table and neighbors’ lights glowing outside.
Grieving Alone: When There's No One at Home
When Veterans Day Is Hard for Veterans: Grief, Guilt and Spending the Day Your Way
When Veterans Day Is Hard for Veterans: Grief, Guilt and Spending the Day Your Way
weathered blank stone beside a newly set white marble veteran headstone in an old country cemetery, with wildflowers and an old family photograph in soft morning light
Finding and Marking an Ancestor's Unmarked Veteran Grave
A blank granite headstone with wildflowers at its base and an open notebook with handwritten lines on the grass beside it, in soft morning light
What to Write on a Headstone: Wording Ideas, Examples and the Rules to Know
A kitchen table at dawn with a notebook, a pen and a coffee mug, a hand-woven blanket on the chair, and open land through the window.
Help With Burial Costs for Tribal and Native Families
A phone, a mug of coffee and a handwritten list on a kitchen table at dawn, with soft gold light and white wildflowers by the window.
When a Funeral Home Won't Release Your Loved One Until You Pay
An older woman’s hand resting on insurance papers at a sunlit kitchen table, beside reading glasses, a cup of tea and a handwritten note.
Final Expense Insurance: Is It Worth It?
A blank granite grave marker set in green grass with a small bunch of wildflowers beside it, in soft early-morning light.
Headstones and Markers: Buying From Anyone, Cemetery Rules, and VA Headstones and Medallions
A folded paper and pen on a wooden bench beside fresh wildflowers, with a quiet tree-shaded cemetery path softly lit in late-afternoon light.
Your Rights With a Cemetery: Fees, Vaults, Headstones and What to Get in Writing
A small jar of wildflowers and a lit candle on a windowsill beside a handwritten note, in soft evening light
When No One Can Pay: What County Cremation Really Means
Watercolor of a kitchen table in morning light with a cup of tea, a folded paper and pen, reading glasses and a small vase of garden flowers.
Paying for a Funeral: What It Costs, Your Rights, Your Options and Who Can Help
Coloring Through Grief: Why Grown-Ups Color Too
Coloring Through Grief: Why Grown-Ups Color Too
Military Honors When the Burial Is Later, Far Away, or Not at All
Military Honors When the Burial Is Later, Far Away, or Not at All
Your Child's First Survivor Day: Helping Kids and Teens After a Suicide Loss
Your Child's First Survivor Day: Helping Kids and Teens After a Suicide Loss
A folded American flag in a wooden case on a kitchen table beside a lit candle, a mug and a handwritten card, with bare November trees outside the window
When Veterans Day Is Hard: For Families Whose Veteran Has Died
An older veteran’s hands around a coffee mug beside old military photographs and a folded map
Questions to Ask a Veteran This Veterans Day (and the Ones to Let Them Bring Up)
An open box of old photographs and letters with dog tags on a sunlit kitchen table, a hand resting on top, beside a teacup, notebook, white flowers and a folded flag in a case.
When Your Veteran's Discharge Wasn't Honorable: A Family Guide to Care, Burial and Upgrades
A warm kitchen at dusk with two children's backpacks on a chair, a stack of opened mail and a mug of tea on a wooden table, and a child's drawing of a family taped to the refrigerator, in soft lamplight.
Widowed Young With Children: The First Year
Telling Your Children a Parent Is Dying: What to Say, Age by Age
Telling Your Children a Parent Is Dying: What to Say, Age by Age
Everything They’ll Need to Know paperback on a sunlit wooden kitchen table beside a cup of coffee, reading glasses, a bowl of apples and a notebook with a planning checklist.
Everything They'll Need to Know: The Book I Wish We'd Made Together
A child’s space-print backpack and a lunchbox on a kitchen counter beside a stack of opened envelopes and a coffee mug, with a folded flag in a triangle case on a shelf, in warm morning light.
Widowed Young: The First Year After Your Veteran Dies
Two teacups on a wooden windowsill at sunset beside an old family photograph, a handwritten letter and a vase of small white flowers, with soft light coming through sheer curtains.
When Your Parent's Trauma Shaped Your Childhood, and Now They're Dying
When Someone You Love Is Dying or Has Died in Prison: A Family Guide
When Someone You Love Is Dying or Has Died in Prison: A Family Guide