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.

Your Stories

Laura shares the story of losing her daughter Katie in a blogpost.  See the month of May in our blog archive and click on the blog title "Losing Katie".  We encourage you to share your thoughts, hopes, condolences, and memories of Katie in the comments portion of the post.  That is where the dialogue takes place.

Quote in honor of Kathleen Lennon 08/19/1986 - 11/29/2010:

"If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again." ~ Author Unknown 


Sarah Wantowski bravely shares the story of losing her mother.  We are honored to have the memory of her mother live on in this blog post, which can be found in the July 2011 area of our blog archive.  Click on the blog title "A Prayer for Sarah".  We encourage you to share your thoughts, hopes, and condolences in the comments portion of the post.  We hope that our prayer reaches Sarah and that she finds the strength to live a beautiful life.

Quote in honor of Sarah's mother 11/22/1923 - 07/02/2008 :

"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality." ~ Emily Dickinson






To share your own story, I encourage you to send me an email at samanthamairson@aol.com and we can work together to create a blogpost.  You send me the words, the pictures, the story - I compose a blogpost and open the discussion.  If you would like to say something small about someone previously memorialized, I encourage you to post a comment on the first memorial blogpost.