In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.

A modern-day fable, told in a richly illustrated children's book format, about a woman who has suffered a terrible loss.

"We're just going to look." Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her young sons to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, with her overlarge ears and dainty chin. When Cleo was delivered weeks later, she had no way of knowing that her new family had just been hit by an unthinkable tragedy. Helen was sure she couldn't keep her-until she saw something she thought had vanished from earth...

"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...

Julie Gardiner and Roger Adams marry just as his newspaper assigns him to Japan. In an earthquake, Julie loses the baby she is carrying and is left unable to have any others. Back in the United States, Roger buys and operates a small newspaper. They decide to adopt a child, Trina, and in an impassioned plea, Roger convinces the judge to let them keep her despite their economic straits due to the failing of the newspaper. Some years later, Trina dies...

Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life, so she is cooking up a batch of "tear soup," in which the ingredients are parts of the grieving process, including memories, misgivings, feelings, and tears.

The viewer is taught how to deal with the death of a loved one by being taken through seventeen segments explaining the grieving process. Experts give advice designed to help understand different grieving styles and to help the grieving party slowly move toward acceptance of their loved one's death. Featured experts' backgrounds range from religious to psychological.