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“Songbird” by Fleetwood Mac:
Christine McVie's open-ended song can celebrate both living and lost loved ones -
First the Wealth Gap, Now the U.S. Has a Growing Health Gap:
Discover why the U.S. health gap is growing and how improving healthspan can enhance quality of life for Americans -
How to Comfort A Dying Loved One:
End-of-life expert Dr. Marianne Matzo explains some simple ways to offer solace
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Categories
Tag Archives: Coming of Age
Looking for Alaska by John Green
John Green explores the consuming nature of grief in his debut young adult fiction novel
Looking for Alaska is a wonderfully beautiful tragedy. In it, we follow Miles “Pudge” Halter as he is sent away from his hometown in Florida to boarding school in Culver Creek, Alabama in a scenario that seems to parallel author … Continue reading
“The Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd
A young girl grapples with her mother’s death and the universal problem of growing up
Growing up has never been easy for any one. In Sue Monk Kidd’s critically acclaimed first novel The Secret Life of Bees, her protagonist, Lily Owens, does so in the midst of the Deep South’s Civil Rights revolt. The memory … Continue reading