Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry I found my forget-me-not charm the other day while scrabbling my fingers through a dish on my dresser for an earring match. The charm is …
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Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry Tonight, the sky was a bruise of color to the west, but still, the light lingered, even as dinner got done later than planned. It …
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry Some Decembers you don’t put up a tree. You let others do the shopping and the wrapping. You wait to get through the month. Some …
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry I let go of my idea of how my baby would be born. I let go of the notion of holding him to my breast, …
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry What Can We Do? For people who want to help when a baby dies Earlier this month at a family party, one of my husband’s …
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Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry In the first months after Henry died, my husband and I found it hard to communicate. We both struggled with our words. We couldn’t come …
Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry “You’re lucky you don’t have a brother.” The seven-year-old we had just met on the trail grumbled to my seven-year-old. No response, but the one …
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Healing a HeartBy Sara Barry As I write this, I’m coming down off a sugar high from our first sugar shack visit of the season. Pancakes dotted with blueberries; crisp, …