“A gift for grievers, this compilation of love, lessons, regrets, and unexpected discoveries gives voice to the most profound defining relationship we experience. From the sacred sorrow of grief and the continuing bonds of love and connection, this book affirms the ever-evolving power of the mother and child relationship. While there was great wisdom in the telling, there is even more so in the sharing of these heartfelt poignant stories.” ~ Karen M. Frank, RN, MS, CHTP, Director, Chesapeake Life Center at Hospice of the Chesapeake 

“These stories are beautiful, as they invite us to share intimate, life changing moments. They evoke the reader’s compassion, sadness, and appreciation of life’s process. This is an engaging, life-affirming book about the death of a special person to each writer. Each story about mothers is unique, yet each is universal; all of them speak to the grieving process and the end story of life’s trajectory.” ~ Ruth Sidransky, author of A Woman’s Primer, Bravo Carrie, and Reparations 

“Saying Goodbye speaks to those who are now caring for an ill mother and may be unsure of how to make day-to-day decisions about death and dying; to those who are saying their final goodbyes or planning funerals and memorial services; to those who are confronting the grief they feel in a world without their mothers’ physical presence; and, finally, to those who still feel sorrow years later.…Each of these stories embraces the relationship between mother and child and addresses the changes that occur when a mother dies.…All of us can recognize our own relationships and mothers in these pages, and that is what makes this book so compelling and necessary.” ~ from the Foreword, Elizabeth Turner Haase, Ph.D., psychologist in private practice, Washington, DC