Gift of Grief

Amanda Coggin has lived some lives. She currently lives in the Bay Area where she's resided for 30 years. This blog is a series of writi...

For the past year and a half I have worked with Zen Hospice Project, an organization that trains volunteer caregivers with a background i...

Addiction. Softening. Compassion for the alcoholic. Led Zeppelin. These are my life's realities, its awakenings, and the American rock...

One of the best explanations of the grieving process I've ever heard is that each time we experience grief, we dip into our grief rese...

Each year in October, my blessed role on the  Litquake  Executive Commitee arrives with the chilling winds. During our culminating event, th...

Yesterday I finally started my writing group here in my beautiful home. It's been a long time coming. I was in a writing group back...

One of the gifts that has come out of my grief is the concept I've called  collaborative grieving . I think of collaborative grieving ...