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Coffee Talk #58: a special reading honoring Harvey Walker. Our dear Monica Welty emceed this evening, remembering/honoring her son Harvey who died 11 years ago. It's a beautiful event with four amazing readers: Ami Patel, Danielle Woermann, Krista Dabakis Price, and Monica Welty.



If you missed it or want to relisten, here it is. They all brought the best heart medicine. What a tender evening.



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Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.



You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.



You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com



Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September. You can buy it wherever you get your books.



Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.



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In this tender conversation with Jessica Fein she shares the power of vulnerability and talks about how grief is love, how she’s grown her heart and understands that joy and sorrow live together. She tells her story of her daughter’s illness and death, and how her ambiguous grief was so different from what she names Hallmark card grief—the grief we think of when someone dies.



Jessica Fein is the author of Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes and host of the "I Don't Know How You Do It” podcast, which features people whose lives seem unimaginable from the outside. Jessica is a working mother and a relentless warrior in the memory of her dynamic daughter whom she lost to rare disease in 2022. Her work encompasses hope and humor, grit and grace—the tools that make up her personal survival kit. She’s a seasoned media contributor, with forums including Newsweek, Psychology Today, The Boston Globe, HuffPost, and more. To learn more visit www.jessicafeinstories.com.



Jessica’s book is just out. You can buy it wherever you buy books.





Thank you for letting us be in your ears.



Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.



You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page:

Coffee and Grief Community.



You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com



Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September. You can buy it wherever you get your books.



Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.



We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

Judith sites a beautiful ritual that includes the questions What happened to you? Why does your heart ache? We love these questions and how they’re wrapped in compassion, how they’re so different from asking What’s wrong? She shares about her writing journey and reminds us to stay with, not give up, on that things that matter to us.



Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s debut novel LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE, is a story of intergenerational love, loss, and longing that grew from her earlies memories. A Mariel Hemingway Book Club pick, the novel won the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Southern Regional Fiction. LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE was shortlisted for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize, where it was also finalist for the Debut Novel Award and awarded an honorable mention in General Fiction. Judith teaches and speaks at conferences and book festivals about healing trauma and finding fiction in fractured families.



Thank you for letting us be in your ears.



Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.



You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.



You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com



Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September. You can buy it wherever you get your books.



Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.



We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

Dianna shares that she while she was pregnant and knew her daughter, Mary Rose’s, chances of survival were slim, she was planning a funeral while buying a preemie car seat. Life and death were closely woven together. In this episode Dianna brings voice to grieving parents, to ghost babies, and to so much more.



DIANNA VAGIANOS ARMENTROUT’s memoir Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death was published in 2016. Dianna’s poems appear in several lit journals and anthologies, including We Are the West, a Twenty Bellows Publication.



She is sending her novel about her female Greek ancestors out to Indie publishers this year. Dianna is the founder of The Labyrinth of the Heart Center, where she supports grieving families and practices Classical Homeopathy. She is a member of the Colorado End of Life Collaborative, and believes that grieving in community is more sustainable for our tender hearts.

For more information visit www.frontrangehomeopathy.com and www.diannavagianos.com



The non-profit in Billings, Montana that pays for infant funerals in Montana to support grieving families is Kisses to Heaven: https://kisses2heaven.com/construction/



Thank you for letting us be in your ears.



Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.



You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.



You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com



Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September.



You can buy it wherever you get your books.



Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.

We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

Ona shares about her sister Angie who was murdered decades ago and family secrets that kept the murder and Ona’s grief buried. In her soon to be released memoir, Everywhere I Look (Apprentice House Press; April 16, 2024), Ona Gritz unravels the mystery and tragedy of her sister, Andrea Susan Gritz, also known as Angie Boggs, while sharing her own awakening to loss, grief, guilt, and the truth.



Ona Gritz  holds a Master of Arts in poetry from the creative writing program at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of August Or Forever, a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, The Guardian, The New York Times, River Teeth, The Rumpus, The Utne Reader, and been named Notable in The Best American Essays and Best of the Year in Salon. Her earlier books include On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability and Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She won the Poetry Archive Now Worldview 2020 Competition and has received many other honors for her poems, which have been widely anthologized. Ona lives with her husband, writer Daniel Simpson, near Philadelphia.



You can find Everywhere I Look and more here: https://www.onagritz.com/



Thank you for letting us be in your ears.



Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.



You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page:

Coffee and Grief Community.



You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com



Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September.

You can buy it wherever you get your books.



Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.



We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

Amy Baskin, Lenka Varekova, Meghan Riordan Jarvis, Melinda Maxwell-Smith, and Miriam Gershow each read a grief piece at our April Coffee Talk. If you missed it or want to relisten, here it is. They all brought the best heart medicine. What a tender evening.



Thank you for letting us be in your ears.



Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.



You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief.

Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.



You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com



Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September.



You can buy it wherever you get your books.



Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.



We’d love you to like and share the podcast!