“Nancy always said baking is a science,” Randy Hallstrom says of his late wife. “Cooking you can do whatever you want, but baking? That’s a science.” After more than 30…
We have all experienced some form of trauma keeping us from optimally moving forward in life. These experiences can be anything from loss and illness to physical or sexual abuse….
What is your relationship with death? For most of human history, we have carried life in one hand and death in the other. We lived closer to the earth and…
Something I have thought a lot about since becoming divorced and then shifting my legal practice into family law is grief. Divorce—and really anything else under the umbrella of “family law”—involves…
During the past several weeks at our firm, we’ve received several phone calls from frazzled family members. A loved one is in the hospital, sometimes even in hospice care, and…
In October 2013, I used a work trip to Chicago as an excuse to bring my 9-month-old son to visit his grandparents. My mother opened the door of my parents’…
Picture this. You’re at the dining room table on Thanksgiving Day. Family is all around you. They’re laughing, sharing stories of past Thanksgiving dinners. They’re happy. But all you want…
Simple burial, cremation, or green burial? As you make estate planning decisions, it’s common — and prudent — to start discussions around your future funeral and burial, too. For centuries,…
In her recent memoir, author and therapist Amy Bloom discusses her heart-wrenching decision to travel with her husband to Switzerland to end his life at Dignitas, a clinic that prescribes…
Show Up Things can be awkward at the hospital or funeral home. You want to visit and support family and friends there, but it can feel uncomfortable. You may not…
