Our Blogging Mission

To start a discussion and create a network of support for people who have recently lost a loved one. Please comment wherever you please. I figure, grief is like a staircase - best to be taken one step at a time. And sometimes, if you have the energy and support, you can hop up two or three steps at a time. If you have a story that you would like to be the centerpiece of a blog post, please send me an email at samanthamairson@aol.com. You can write the blog story yourself and I will post it as is, or you can send me the details, I will write a story, send it to you for editing and approval, and then we will post it.

Let's get the dialogue going.

My Story

My senior year of high school was marked by two tragic losses, losses that introduced me to the pain and difficultly that is grief.  
I lost my cousin, Katie Lennon, on Thanksgiving Day and a couple days prior, I lost Sam Frost, a boy in my school.


My cousin who, for the entirety of my youth, I adored and looked up to.  I admired her spunk, her wit, and her passion for stories.  She lived in Florida and as I wandered through my own joyful teenage oblivion, I saw us grow apart.  But I also pictured us growing old together, vacationing together, and reminiscing together about the craziness that was (and still is) our family.  She was the first person I thought to call when things were bad.  On Thankgiving Day, 2010, I received the news that she had died from a drug overdose.


It still seems surreal.



Rock in Peace Sam Frost  9/22/94 - 11/15/10
Below is a link to Offbeat Press, who had so much faith in my words and my writing, that they published words that I had only meant to be a facebook update.


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