Lives Well Lived

Lives Well Lived

Vivian McInerny

Ode to a Friendship

From cradle to grave, or dang close

Sep 13

Ode to a Friendship

Sep 13

Carter Anderson Lee

My Grandpa Came to the US and Gave Me the Life He Always Wanted

We didn’t speak the same language, but I understood

Sep 9

My Grandpa Came to the US and Gave Me the Life He Always Wanted

Sep 9

Ryan Frawley

The Most Beautiful Place to Fall

Death and life in the South of France

Aug 31

The Most Beautiful Place to Fall

Aug 31

Dawn D

From Tough Parent To Tender Grandparent

A journey of transformation

Aug 26

A grandparent and grandchild gardening together.

Aug 26

Bella Kennedy

A Love That Wasn’t Meant To Be

Death had the final say

Jul 31

The author’s childhood sweetheart, Joe, posing while wearing a white hard hat with his name on it. He’s five stories up on a walkway on a power plant in New Mardrid near Girardeau, Missouri on April 28, 2012

Jul 31

Vivian McInerny

How to Be a Best Friend

Friends make friends make snow angels

Jul 19

How to Be a Best Friend

Jul 19

Jac Tomlins

Grief is the price we pay for love: Anon

I wrote this piece in 2013 and am reposting it here today (July 10th, 2024)

Jul 9

Grief is the price we pay for love: Anon

Jul 9

Walter Rhein

How the Chance Sight of an Obituary Helped Me Finally Understand a Childhood Friend

We are all so innocent and unprepared to navigate the challenges of life

Jun 10

How the Chance Sight of an Obituary Helped Me Finally Understand a Childhood Friend

Jun 10

Alison Acheson

Lives Well Lived — a New Publication

Tell us a story and call it an obituary

Jun 5

Lives Well Lived — a New Publication

Jun 5

Chuck McCutcheon

What I Learned About Literature From a Friend Who Just Died

I own too many books. Way too many books. They, along with those belonging to my wife, fill shelves that consume an entire wall in our…

Aug 12, 2023

What I Learned About Literature From a Friend Who Just Died

Aug 12, 2023

Lives Well Lived

Obituaries for those we’ve loved and/or those who’ve inspired us; share with us how another human has changed your life or opened your eyes

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Alison Acheson

Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS--caregiving memoir. My pubs here: LIVES WELL LIVED, UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS, and editor for WRITE & REVIEW.

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