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"The Beginner's Goodbye": A Grief Observed
In The Beginner's Goodbye, author Anne Tyler celebrates amateurs and novices - beginners still capable of learning. It's this capacity for change that makes Tyler's characters so appealing.She is the patron saint of misfits. Embarking on an Anne Tyler novel is like heading off on vacation to a favorite destination: You're filled with anticipation of pleasure, even though you know the[...]
GPS For The Soul: An App for Better Living
When asked two years ago to give thought on what would be the next big thing on the internet, Arianna Huffington, publisher of the online news agency Huffington Post, off the top of her head said that she would like to see an app created that would gauge the state of your mind, body, and spirit, then automatically offer the exact steps you would need to take to realign all three aspects[...]
The Man Who Discovered Pluto is on His Way There
In 1929, the Lowel Observatory, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, hired a young man by the name of Clyde Tombaugh to take over the search for a planet beyond Neptune, a search that was started by astronomer, Percival Lowell in 1905. Tombaugh had drawn very meticulous sketches of Mars and Jupiter that[...]
Help for Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Stillbirths and miscarriages are one of the most painful experiences for families expecting a new child in their lives. Approximately 26,000 stillbirths occur in the United States every year - on average, 1 in 115 births. Governments in the United States, Canada, Australia and Italy have formally recognized the annual date of October 15th to observe International Pregnancy and Infant[...]
MemryStone - Giving More Meaning to Cremation
A funeral director in Massachusetts now offers a unique product to help survivors feel more connected and confident in the act of cremation. William “BT” Hathaway of Hathaway Family Funeral Homes has developed a ceramic “token” which he calls MemryStone.Survivors inscribe each MemryStone with a personal message, they then place the ceramic with the deceased and it travels[...]
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