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It is often said that bad news comes in threes. Maybe for some, but that has not been my experience. For me bad news seems to come more like rain. Just as there are days, weeks and sometime months of cloud-free, rainless days, there seems to be times when all news is good news, and everything is coming up roses, as they say. Then like the clouds rolling in, I start to hear about people I know...

Readers: The following is not a cheerful musing. The other day I was informed that one of my high school classmates passed away. I recalled the days of our youth and the things we did together. It seems so long ago now. Hs obituary. mentioned his wife of many years. I thought of her loss and grief. While not unique, to each who has suffered the loss of a spouse they loved, the pain is...

A while back, an ambulance in Ohio headed to a hospital was broadsided at an intersection. The patients in the ambulance were being treated for injuries from an earlier car wreck when their ambulance was struck. In that second accident, the impact and subsequent fire killed three emergency medical technicians and two patients; a fourth medical technician and the driver of the other vehicle were...

In Florida, marking time when talking about people's own lives is different than in most states. It may have to do with our senior population. As sizable as it is most of the year, it grows significantly during the first three months of the year when our snowbirds return. And as you might expect, when a flock of snowbirds gather at a local restaurant, the talk often is of the past. I find...

Not everyone grieves in the same way. After all, we are different people with different physical appearances, different perspectives, different experiences, different thoughts, different emotions, different backgrounds, and different attitudes. So why when it comes to grief do we believe that there is one correct way to handle the loss of a loved one? There are in fact a number of constructive...