• Advice

    Posted on June 30th, 2009

    Written by Judy

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    Tragedy in the Office: Are We Making Things Worse?

    Dear Judy
    I work in a fairly small office. One of our gals just had a baby, she’s thrilled. Another just had a very late-term miscarriage — in fact labor had to be induced, so the worst of it was the mother knew she would be “giving birth” to a  stilborn  baby.
    Our issue here at the office is awful. [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on September 30th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Death at Birth: Bad Joke, Bad Afterlife

    Dear Judy,
    My mother died in childbirth — mine. That was 43 years ago. My father remarried; his second wife was a wonderful mother to me. I was lucky. Their two sons — my half-brothers — are terrific.
    Unfortunately at some point, maybe during a seriously bad patch of my rough adolescence, someone cracked a joke [...]