Preparing a Funeral for a Baby and Feeling the Influence of a Life

Mara Kofoed, a Brooklynite of 12 years, is founder of A BLOG ABOUT LOVE.  She writes her heart out daily sharing real stories about love, marriage, divorce, self-worth & trials.  Because of her own divorce & 8 years of infertility, she learned something that felt revolutionary at the time, but was what she had been [...]

Grief Wears Steel-Capped Boots

My fourteen year old firstborn sits in the hairdressers’ chair, all lanky legs and angles. His curls tumble to the floor – a boofy English Sheepdog turning sleek German Pinscher – and his face morphs as I watch. He’s half smiling, the little mouth twitch I know means he’s well pleased. “Reckon your Dad will [...]

All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day

One family, we dwell in Him; One church above, beneath; Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death. One army of the living God, To His command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. —Charles Wesley (1701-1778) November 1st, 2007, Munich, Germany. Slowly, aimlessly, [...]

Walking Barefoot at the Fourth Hole

This post (originally written two years ago) is the last in a series of posts about my grandparents. Thanks for sharing memories with me. We’ve been coming here for four years now, so I guess you could call it a tradition. Each summer my parents, siblings, and their families gather for a three-day weekend at [...]

La Leche à la Hong Kong

No one warned me that we’d be hiking all day long, trekking under full blown summer sun on Lantau island, running low on water, dehydrated, sluggish, in need of shade and a toilet. Had I known all this beforehand, of course I would have carried several water bottles for myself and several clothes changes and [...]

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