Rick made Fran a seaweed heart
Rick’s early years were all spent at his family’s hotel in Hollywood Florida, but the only tangible keepsake left was a two-sided postcard. I took the logo
Legacy
A birth mom’s gift to her biological daughter
It took 10 minutes for Therese’s biological daughter Liz to find her birth mom on the Internet. Now for her daughter’s 35th birthday, this Dreamscape
National Hospice Foundation’s 25th anniversary
What is the essence of hospice? Ask any family or caregiver and they will tell you it is the comfort of dying in our own
God gives Lety only what she can take
Total images: 10 Lety M’s husband and 28-year old son Junior had already died from Huntington’s Disease. Janet, her 26-year old daughter, was now in
Vitaly was the travel agent in their marriage
Vitaly always had a taste for adventure — ever since the Soviet Union granted him permission to visit Germany on official business. His wife, though,
Isabel is Maria’s greatest accomplishment
Isabel wished to create a gift for her mother in the spirit of a warm reunion as typically their relationship feels always on edge. Isabel
Loretta’s mom learned to love her daughter by loving herself
Total images: 9 After her mom died, Loretta stuck all the original photographs in a drawer. “I would look at the photos,” says Loretta, “and
Anne H explains a father’s character flaw to her sibs
Total images: 10 Due to a bad case of wanderlust, Bill abandons his wife and family for nearly two decades. The painting on the clothesline
Simon with the grand-daughter he never met
Total images: 9 Simon, a Holocaust survivor, read the Jerusalem Post religiously and ran the New York Marathon every year. The beautiful etching tinted blue
Remy arr-arr-arr-ed like a seal
Joseph C, longtime master of his beloved and now deceased Schnauzer, Remington, wanted a fully human portrait to remember him by. Here Joseph describes what
Janet consults all her Bills from her rocking chair
Janet F, Bill’s widow, is about to “graduate” from her bereavement support group. Yet she still wrestles with loneliness and fear at home and at
Gay sex ban abolished by The Supremes
June 30, 2006 Chicago was bursting with pride — in particular, the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn the ban on gay sex. This politically-charged float