Recent Writings
Online
Recent Online Article
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,
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
In Print
Recent Print Article
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, 2004 Naples resident Richard Ballo recently established
Finding New Uses for Helicopters
By Richard Ballo Montachusett Review, May 3, 1989 First, you hear it. Eyes peer upward trying