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By sharimcminn
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Posted January 15, 2021

DWITS #14 – Chapter 11, Life Goes On

This mid-chapter excerpt tells of the high point of memorializing one’s death — a grand celebration of a life well lived — even though difficult days immediately follow. +++ (Chapter begins in [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted December 18, 2020

DWITS #13 – Chapter 10, The Best Birthday Ever

Hard as it was to have our baby die unexpectedly, the sudden death of my husband was significantly more grievous and life changing. I am thankful that the year, the month, the week before — even [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted December 12, 2020

DWITS #12 – Chapter 9, An Over-the-Top Life

Those who know me and my family well, understand our crazy good life. Spectators wonder, and sometimes negatively judge who we are and what we do. In my recently published book addressing death, [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted November 20, 2020

DWITS #11 – Chapter 8, The Best Birthday Ever

As written in my latest book, Death, Where is Thy Sting? Recovery from the Loss of Our Loved Ones and Preparation for Our Own Final Days, hard as it was to have our baby die unexpectedly, the [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted October 23, 2020

DWITS #10 – Chapter 7, An Over-the-Top Life

Those who know me and my family well, understand our crazy good life. Spectators wonder, and sometimes negatively judge, who we are and what we do. In a book addressing death, there also is an [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted October 16, 2020

DWITS #9 – Chapter 6, A Passionate Mission for Our Lives as a Family

Below, my late husband, Cary, and I in our camping clothes at a pristine lake in British Columbia, Canada on August 7, 1996. Every Friday afternoon I blog about my recently published “grief [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted October 9, 2020

DWITS #8 – Chapter 5, Loving My Husband Through His Anger

For many reasons, the divorce rate for a married couple who have had a child die is significantly higher than the norm (approximately 70% compared to 50% rate). Women and men grieve differently. [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted October 3, 2020

DWITS #7 – Chapter 4, Helping My Children Overcome Their Loss

Below, our family in 1993 before baby Abby’s birth and death in 1995. How could I help them understand and cope with our overwhelming loss of her? I am just a common person, sometimes [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted September 25, 2020

DWITS #6 – Chapter 3, Our Neighborhood Helps Us Grieve

My two oldest daughters, now both grown with lives of their own, were just 2- and 4-years-old when their baby sister Abby died so unexpectedly. Our neighborhood friends’ children helped [...]

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By sharimcminn
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Posted September 18, 2020

DWITS #5 – Chapter 2, In the Twinkling of an Eye

I hate Christmas! Truthfully, I love it, but my silent reflections each year on the pain of Christmas 1995 seem to engulf everything good. With heart-aching sadness I gaze at the sparkling tree, [...]

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