Hello, again. You might have noticed the July to April gap in new posts onWhat to Say When Someone Dies. Years ago, I first started writing content for this grief support website within three days of my husband
When you’re upset over the death of someone dear to you and dear to others around you, it can be difficult to filter what you say to whom. A little over a week ago, a reader on another blog* shared this illustration of “Comfort IN, Dump OUT” as expressed by Susan Silk and Barr...
"Hubert was a light in our lives—someone who loved deeply, gave generously, and brought joy to everyone who knew him. He had so much more life to live," the family said in the statement. "Hubert had a passion for baseball before he could even walk. An incredible athlete,...
Your (insert relationship of deceased to bereaved here.) was a great man/woman and he/she will be truly missed and will always be remembered. My/Our condolences. Losing someone we love is nothing easy, but knowing that we have been able to be a part of the life of that person, we...
Plamondon: He was someone who, you know, when it came to the Cold War, was giving advice to the Soviets on how they should manage them, manage their affairs. He was giving advice on how to manage Ronald Reagan. He wasn’t taking Ronald Reagan’s message to the Soviets to say that,...
(Para. 3) “Not that” is used to say that what follows is not true. Miss Emily would not have accepted charity, which she would have found humiliating. When her father died, Miss Emily was quite poor, but being a proud woman from an august family, she would not accept charity. ...
not for myself, but for someone — or something— else.To say that I ran to honor the victims would feel a bit phony — when I headed out to run, there wasn’t any information about who they were or how old they were. All we could really guess was that each of yesterday’s ...
In Response To: A Loose Tooth Posted on March 31, 2019 A few weeks back, a student in my class, an eighth grader, lost a tooth in my class. “Aren’t you a little old to lose teeth?” one student asked, but I knew she wasn’t. I, too, was a late loser, when it came ...
When an employee is going through the loss of a loved one, supervisors and coworkers should be sympathetic to the employee and see if there is anything they can do to help. Grief counselors say it is much better to acknowledge an employee’s loss and offer their condolences instead of stay...
August 7, 1971: “Here we are at Jane Goodall’s field station waiting for the chimps to come.” When discussing traveling to the station by train: “It took us a lot longer to get here than planned…And no room left in 1st class so we had to go 2nd class (there remained still ...