by HeartLight Center | Dec 16, 2025 | Heart to Heart
How many “first times” must I experience? Will the “triggers” ever become just another song or just another photo or just another place? Just days after you died came the “first time” to fold clothes as they came out of the dryer,...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 13, 2025 | Heart to Heart
Death is a scary word to many whom have never experienced it before and until it occurs in your family or even community we tend to disconnect from the idea. I found myself in shambles when death impacted my family, unable to pick up the pieces of my mind as I was in...
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...
