Episode 374: Someone Sat With Me

She can’t tell you what was said. She can only tell you that someone was there. Michelle was just a couple of weeks into life without her son Corban when a bereaved mom she had never met offered to come sit with her. They stayed together for a few hours. The words...

Episode 370: Ready – Matthew’s Mom

For six years, Deborah carried this alone. Not entirely by choice. Just by circumstance, by distance, by the particular kind of grief that comes when your child dies as an adult with his own family, his own home, his own life four hundred miles away. The grief that...

Episode 369: Get Into the Pit – Max’s Mom

Erin starts every conversation about her son the same way. He was the most interesting person I have ever known. And she means it. Max was quirky and eccentric and tender-hearted in equal measure. He spoke in full sentences at fifteen months. He memorized a...