Living with Grief

Local author, Steve Rand, will read excerpts from his memoir, entitled “A Mother’s Prayer.” that

is focused on how his mother raised Rand and her other two children while confronting a deadly

disease and becoming a single parent. Though her family of origin begged her to return to

Vermont, she refused, believing a return home represented failure.

Following his conversation, Rachel Wylie Fenton, of Where The Love Lies, will talk about grief,

and how it stays with us throughout our lives, changing shape as time passes. As Wylie-Fenton

says “sometimes our grief is close to the surface, and sometimes it quietly surprises us. There

is room for all of it.”