by HeartLight Center | Oct 6, 2025 | Recipes for Remembering
Oatmeal Cookies Cooked with Love by Kelly Karavousanos, HeartLight Center Director of Community Outreach “Every Christmas, my grandma would fill her kitchen with plates of cookies and pies of every kind. No matter how many she made, she always set aside a lemon...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 6, 2025 | Recipes for Remembering
Finnish Christmas Stars (Pinwheel Tarts) Cooked with Love by Genna Greeves, HeartLight Center New Mexico Community Liaison “My Papa and mom’s dad, Oliver, was always proud of his Finnish heritage. Our family Christmas tradition was to have a potluck dinner with family...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 6, 2025 | Recipes for Remembering
Poppy Seed Rolls Cooked with Love by Allison Gary, HeartLight Center Program Director “My beloved maternal grandmother, whom I call Grammy, inherited this recipe from her in-laws. Every Christmas, the sweet smells of pastry and poppy seeds would fill the air. After...
by HeartLight Center | Sep 30, 2025 | Heart to Heart
My husband suddenly passed away a week after our 49th wedding anniversary. How I’m coping with what would have been our 50th anniversary and the first year of his passing: I did my own ritual starting with wearing his crucifix, taking deep breaths, reading this...
by HeartLight Center | Aug 20, 2025 | Heart to Heart
Ever Forward Four years. Nearly four years. The calendar pages fly by in a blur. Am I awake? Asleep? Another “benchmark” checked. Another mile on the road to “moving on.” Four rotations around the sun, dimmer now without you here to see it. Forty-six months....
