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How a Tiny Pack of Cards Helped My Kids to Know Me Better

By Rebecca Soffer August 25, 2021

It’s been tough to carve out time for meaningful conversations during the pandemic. This is how I’ve done it.

Live From New York, It’s Modern Loss!

By Rebecca Soffer November 9, 2019

We laughed, we cried, it was better than 'Cats.'

‘Take Ownership of What You’ve Discovered’

By Rebecca Soffer April 1, 2019

Writer Dani Shapiro opens up about secrets, healing through exploring, and the thrill of of the word “million.”

Twitter for Eternity

By Lara Ziobro January 7, 2019

I wish I had more letters from my mother, more time with her, more everything. What I do have, though, is her 16.7K tweets.

The End Well Symposium

By Rebecca Soffer December 6, 2017

A new conference aims to create a cultural shift in supporting how we die.

Thank You, Sherman Alexie, for Going Public with Your Pain

By Melanie Brooks August 2, 2017

By suspending his book tour to deal with grief over losing his mother, Sherman Alexie is challenging a culture that admires stoic resilience.

The Modern Loss Mother’s Day Gift Swap

By Rebecca Soffer May 3, 2017

Missing someone special on the Hallmark holiday? Sign up to send a gift to (and receive one from!) someone else who is, too.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Soledad O’Brien and Allison Gilbert on Remembering and Resilience

By Ralph White April 28, 2017

A special May 1 panel at New York Open Center's Art of Dying conference.

It’s Katie Fisher Day!

By Matt Fisher March 10, 2017

Starting a cookie-baking social media memorial holiday would have been a strange move for anyone, but perhaps stranger for me than most.

Buh Bye, 2016

By Gabrielle Birkner December 29, 2016

On cursing the year that took so many of our heroes, famous and not.

What Cindy Stowell’s Inspiring ‘Jeopardy’ Win Teaches Us

By Gabrielle Birkner December 22, 2016

It's obvious, but too often overlooked.

Grief Revisted: Election 2016 Post-Mortem

By Rebecca Soffer November 11, 2016

The loss I've been feeling this week is real. Same goes for yours.

Hillary Clinton’s Condolence Note to a Newly Bereaved Mother

By Modern Loss August 11, 2016

But this one is a condolence note to a mother whose baby died at four days old.

21 Things You Probably Don’t Know About My Dead Dad

By Rebecca Soffer June 18, 2016

No. 9: If he loved you, he'd write you an insanely clever poem for every birthday, milestone or minor holiday.

20 Things You Probably Don’t Know About My Dead Dad

By Gabrielle Birkner June 18, 2016

He never met my children, but they will know him through the photos, scrapbooks and stories of those who knew and loved him best. Through me.

The ‘Funeral Clothes Project’

By Spencer Merolla February 5, 2016

How (and why) I'm turning old funeral frocks into fine art.

In 2015, These Events Changed How We Talk About Grief

By Gabrielle Birkner December 29, 2015

From #JeSuisCharlie and #BlackLivesMatter to Sheryl Sandberg's meditation on loss, the past year has transformed the conversation around death and dying.

‘I Don’t Wait’

By Modern Loss December 4, 2015

It's hard being patient when you're living with a fatal illness. Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is channeling her impatience into changing how Cystic Fibrosis research is done.