Darling, the psalm tells us that we must walk through the…

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the…

— Ann Hood

“Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn't sure that was enough anymore.”

— Ann Hood

“On April 18, 1906, when that earthquake hit San Francisco and took David from her, Vivien began to speak the language of grief. She…

— Ann Hood

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

— Ann Hood

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

— Ann Hood

“Follow love and it will flee; Flee love and it will follow you.”

— Ann Hood

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to…

— Ann Hood

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but…

— Ann Hood

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father…

— Ann Hood

“Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long…

— Ann Hood

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable…

— Ann Hood

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I…

— Ann Hood

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my…

— Ann Hood

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

— Ann Hood

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

— Ann Hood