It's National Suicide Prevention Week. That means different things to different people. To me, a survivor of suicide loss, it means talking openly about suicide. Not allowing the loss to consume me, b...

by Casey Mulligan Walsh | Knowing yet not knowing.

A memoir by Eileen Vorbach Collins

A Year of Support, Love, and Memories

The conundrum of writing about grief and trauma

This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you. Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New...

In her stunning debut memoir, Everywhere the Undrowned, Stephanie Clare Smith walks us through the summer she spent on her own, at fourteen, in a New Orleans....

Your death wasn’t real. I knew you’d come back, that it was, all of it, a bad dream. The worst dream ever dreamed. When after the first day of shiva— after I laughed and chatted, served cake and co…

Making Lemonaid on a Cold November Day

Happy Tuesday, everyone.   It’s two weeks past the election, and if you’re reading this, you have survived.   I do not say that lightly. For some, this election felt like a life-or-death event.   And ...