Between Grief and Joy

Food, Memory, Love and Loss: When the Biscuits Don’t Rise

On freestyle baking and the biscuits we never called flat

Jun 7 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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May 2026

The Table We Set for the Gone Ones

Somewhere between the battlefield and the backyard, we forgot what we were celebrating.

May 25 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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Live with author Terah Shelton Harris on writing about grief

A recording from Yolande Clark-Jackson's live about Harris' bestselling book Where the Wildflowers Grow about grief, healing and moving from surviving…

May 3 • Yolande Clark-Jackson and Terah Harris

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April 2026

The Recipe I Wanted Most

Listen now | I realize decades later the recipe I truly wanted was never in this book. Click to listen to the intro and poem, then read about a book…

Apr 19 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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Food, Memory, Love, Loss: Behind the Chain-linked Fence, Ruth's Dutch Apple Crunch

There are people who leave a lasting impressions on your life not because they never leave but because what they've left will stay with you forever.

Apr 5 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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March 2026

Food,Memory, Love, Loss: #7 My husband's story behind his grandmother's shepherd's pie

I interviewed my husband twenty five years after his grandmother donated her recipe to the Divine Cookbook. It's a dish he remembers enjoying as a child…

Mar 15 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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On Turning: What's Buried. What Grows.

If I receive the blessing of waking again tomorrow, I will see the strata of 54.

Mar 9 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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Food, Memory, Love, Loss: Ross's Barbecue Sauce

A recipe from a stranger who understood.

Mar 1 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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February 2026

Love and flowers

What Patricia Hampl's memoir taught me about grief and beauty

Feb 22 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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Food, Memory, Love, Loss: "Baby" in my grandmother's voice was as sweet as her sweet potato pie

My late grandmother donated her sweet potato pie recipe to our fundraiser for options and hope for my daughter Divine.

Feb 16 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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On February 21st and the Loop of Care

Showing up is sometimes letting people know you remember.

Feb 8 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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Food, Memory, Love, Loss: Fusion Ful

How food and grief fuse people and place.

Feb 2 • Yolande Clark-Jackson

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