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I'm an ex-auto mechanic, ex-Marine (there's really no such thing), former electronics technician, longtime union carpenter, onetime Windsmith, previous service manager, past manufacturing planner, project manager turned MIS manager, programmer, network engineer, onetime corporate CEO, general contractor (tile setter, plumber, electrician, and of course carpenter), turned system integrator, who decided to lead technology in K-12 as a IT Director, who is now a semi-retired consultant who likes to write.

My passion is ...

My family

Why I write ...

To better understand, to communicate, to share

Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss How to be of help when a friend loses a child

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Why doesn't the world stop? How does it just keep on going as if the horror of horrors had not occurred? If someone you care about has lost a child, and you want to make them feel better, it's simple: just stop the world and roll back time. If you have not the power to do so, yet you sincerely wish to help, start by sincerely trying to understand what he or she is feeling. There is nothing like the loss of a child. To the grieving parent, it is quite literally the end of the world - their world. That which means more than life itself has been torn from their breast leaving a hole that thre...

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