May 2, 2018 Dear Friends, As Mother’s Day approaches each year, the country’s attention collectively turns toward celebrating mothers who are living. Yet for many of us, thoughts also naturally turn to mothers who are no longer here. For motherless...
The year after a major loss is invariably a Year of Firsts. All of the usual dates and holidays keep coming around on the calendar — except this year they’ve all changed. Someone essential is missing. Facing a first birthday, first Mother’s Day, first...
Fifty eight families (and counting) are mourning the senseless deaths of their loved ones today. More than 500 are injured. And up to 20,000 could be struggling for a long time from the trauma of having been part of the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history....
Twenty five years ago, 92 women were interviewed for the first edition of Motherless Daughters and shared their stories with honesty and courage, some of them speaking about mother loss for the first time. While working on my next book — my eighth, this one...
Journalist and author Allison Gilbert has become a prominent voice in the field of bereavement writing, helping readers actively remember and honor their lost loved ones. Having lost both of her parents by age 31, she went on to write the insightful books Always Too...
Dear Readers, Dear Friends, Dear Sisters of the Heart, It’s a sunny afternoon in Southern California, the Friday before Mother’s Day. I’m sitting at my kitchen table while the palm trees on my driveway gently sway in the breeze and the distant sound of a weed-whacker...
Mother’s Day was started by a motherless daughter in the early 20th century, yet soon became a holiday for celebrating the day with mothers who are living. So what’s a daughter to do when she wants to revive the founder’s original intent — to...
Dear Readers, Dear Friends, Dear Sisters of the Heart, Yesterday afternoon I attended a Motherless Daughters Day luncheon in Costa Mesa, California, sponsored by Motherless Daughters of Orange County. Every May for 20 years this group has created a space for local...
Twenty-one years ago, a small group of motherless daughters in New York City organized the first Motherless Daughters Day Luncheon in Manhattan and about a dozen other cities nationwide. We believed that mothers who were no longer living also deserved to be...
The first Motherless Daughters Retreat, which I’ll be co-facilitating with the wonderful author and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith (The Rules of Inheritance, After This), will take place from August 18-21, 2016, in Ojai, California. This three-day, three-night...
