The sudden death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others sent shock waves across the world.

This article, written by Gianna DeMedio, originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on December 21st, 2018. My fiancé and I have a...

Q: My fiancé and I are both grieving a loved one and also trying to plan our wedding. It's been really hard. We're lacking motivation and...

Q: My father recently died after a very short sickness. I have no idea what to do with my life. Where do I go from here? Will I ever make...

I'm not sure what I'm more proud of: that I found the time amongst wedding planning to actually write an article, or that the article...

I haven’t been very open about this before, but going to weddings when you’re grieving is really, REALLY hard. Fathers walk their...

It's hard to return to the scene of the crime... every day. I work at the same hospital where my dad passed away. Every morning I walk...

Once in a while, you can really benefit from taking the opportunity to let it all out—open those lungs and tear ducts and cry until the...

It sounds ridiculous, but you can tell how I'm feeling by my hair. After my future mother-in-law passed away in November, the natural...

Recently I had the pleasure of being a guest on "Bouncing Back with Lisa Bien," a show that broadcasts on the Temple University TV...

I’m only a few miles out from the cemetery and it begins to rain. The day is gloomy, so this isn’t quite a surprise, but I question...

When my dad passed away, there were many parts of my life that were completely altered, and many experiences in my future that I knew...

I have a friend, Joan, who is extremely talented at anything involving art. She can draw, she can paint, she can sculpt. She can even do...

A few weeks ago, an old friend reached out to me saying that she had seen SSFYL and needed advice. She had just lost her uncle in a...

It is not lost on me that I have yet to publish a blog detailing May 22nd, 2017. That became a harder task than I had anticipated. I...

Logic vs. Emotion: a match-up you will hear me speak about many times. I know, logically, there is no direct correlation between my...

Remember being in school growing up and thinking to yourself in the middle of a lesson, “Whyyyy the hell are they teaching me this? I’m...

I woke up to another sunny day on Wednesday, May 17th. Unbeknownst to me, I wasn’t appreciating it the way I should’ve been at the time....

He wore a suit. It was gray and a little bigger on him than it should’ve been. He wore dress shoes. The kind that clacked against the...

Writing has become like diving into a cold sea. Each time I open the computer, I feel a cool breeze on my face from the drifts of the...