Raising Bereaved Kids
Video interview of Richard Ballo by Open to Hope on the topic of raising bereaved kids.
Celebrating Mother’s Day After Loss
Mother’s Day recalls all things maternal – warm and wonderful hugs, children’s homemade cards, a delicious dinner, mom’s loving kisses and smiles. But Mother’s Day can be extremely challenging for children who have lost a mother.
Getting Through the Holidays After a Loss
The holidays are not necessarily a happy, merry time – especially for people whose loved one had died or left them during the past year, or even the past several years. In fact,
Thoughts from Dad
I write about healing to help people who are left to grieve and remember their loved ones.
Higher Education
By Richard Ballo Florida Gulf Coast University, November 12,
Finding New Uses for Helicopters
By Richard Ballo Montachusett Review, May 3, 1989 First,
Disabled Find Ally in Themselves
I write about healing to help people who are left to grieve and remember their loved ones.
Why I Write About Grief
I write about grief and people ask me if I am a psychologist because of the subject matter that I write about. I am not a psychologist. I am a writer. But psychology and why people act the way they do
Teenage Pregnancy
You may know a teenage girl who has given birth, or a teen boy who has fathered a child. I do. I knew a girl who got pregnant in high school
Where do writers get ideas?
Know where to look. Where do writers get their ideas? Getting ideas is easy if you know where to look. The first place to look