I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.