$18.95
Paperback, 6″ x 9″
169 pages
ISBN 978-1-63381-438-7
by Cheryl Stitham White
After her husband of forty-six years died suddenly, Cheryl White began emailing friends and family to let them know how she was doing. Over the next five years, as White navigated day-to-day details and worked through anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, and all the countless moments that define a couple’s life together, what emerged was a touching chronicle of loss and a way to accept a future without the love of her life.
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A beautiful open-hearted story of a lifelong love, forged before they were grown, transformed by death but never broken. Letters of Laughter and Loss explores a granulated grief, the unexpected nooks and crannies of loss, the infinitesimal steps into a future alone. And in her profoundly simple words, White lets us see the raw edges of a soul.
—Mary E. Plouffe, PhD, author of I Know It in My Heart: Walking Through Grief with a Child
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cheryl Stitham White was born and raised in Maine. After graduating from Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft, she attended Colby College, where she majored in British history. Graduating in 1969, she then attended the University of Maine in Orono, receiving a master’s degree in special education in 1970. She married her high school sweetheart, Bob White, in 1972.
She had a forty-seven-year career in education in southern Maine, working in Scarborough, Freeport, and Brunswick. In 2000, after many years of writing grants, memos, and school newsletters, she began writing articles for the Maine Sunday Telegram’s Maine Observer section.
She divides her time between South Portland and her camp in central Maine.