I was interviewed for a story on home funerals in Upworthy by Evan Porter, and he wrote a beautiful piece. Very grateful to be sharing it here: https://www.upworthy.com/how-a-nontraditional-funeral-helped-this-mom-process-her-daughters-tragic-death?c=hpstream
Read moreUpdate on NPR Interview
I promised the link to my interview on NPR, and here it is: Voices for the Cure on Arizona Public Media. Mark McLemore was a wonderful, thoughtful and sensitive interviewer, and I’m so honored to have the opportunity to share more of Elizabeth’s and my journey with more people.
Read moreNPR Interview – “Voices for the Cure”
A quick note: I was interviewed for our local NPR station about losing Elizabeth, and our journey with cancer and death. It airs today, January 10 at 6pm, Arizona time, and tomorrow, January 11 at 5pm. If you’re in Tucson, Arizona, you can listen live at 89.1, or stream it here wherever you are: https://radio.azpm.org/kuaz/ […]
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Preparing and Offering Her Body
When Elizabeth died, I was as well prepared as I could be. She had been at home, my home, in hospice care for almost two months, and I was able to be with her that entire time, letting go of almost everything else for that time. It was heartbreakingly sad and breathtakingly beautiful – the […]
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Moving Into Acceptance and Enlightenment
Moving Into Acceptance and Enlightenment Early August, 2012: Emails and other writings from Lucia Maya These are emails I wrote from the second week after my 22 year old daughter, Elizabeth Blue, came home from the hospital under hospice care last summer. She arrived at my house and we quickly settled into a routine of […]
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