Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hope Edelman: motherlessness is not all bad news, she argues (Crosbyrobert/CC4.0) I first read this book in New York, when I was ...

Edelman (Motherless Daughters) returns with a charming memoir full of self-deprecating honesty that defies easy categorization. Edelman is forced to seek a solution to the sudden appearance of her ...

When my mother died suddenly 30 years ago, I was 13. I’d spend the next 20 years attempting to understand what it means not to have a mother. And I did this basically alone. Mostly, this was because ...

Contributed by Hope Edelman, author of The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss. If ever a year of collective grief were to appear in our lifetimes, 2020 just raised its hand and ...

Find an excerpt from "The After Grief" here. The holiday season can feel melancholy for many, particularly those who've lost loved ones — not only over the last year but over a lifetime. But grief, ...

Motherless children can attend special summer camps, for instance, or Mother's Day retreats like those hosted by the Massachusetts-based non-profit EmpowerHer, which works with girls whose mothers ...