Linda is a loving mother to two girls. She was very close with her beloved daughter Andrea, who was 3 months pregnant with her second child. During the holiday season in 2011, Linda’s worst nightmare became reality… her precious daughter died in a senseless, horrific car accident.
What made Andrea’s death even more tragic was that two lives were lost - both her and her unborn baby. And, life was just unfolding for Andrea when she passed away… as a new wife with a young, growing family.
Knowing so much promise lay ahead for Andrea just compounded her mother’s grief. Much of what Linda experienced after that shattering moment was what she describes as a “black hole.”
The next few years were difficult, not only due to dealing with the overwhelming loss of her beautiful daughter, but in dealing with the legal proceedings involving the accident that was the cause of Andrea’s passing.
Several years later, Linda’s grandson Nathan was also involved in an accident, this time as a pedestrian. All of the horrors of losing her daughter came flooding back, and she once again found herself in a pit of grief even though Nathan survived the ordeal. In order to process her feelings, Linda turned to the written word as a creative outlet.
Linda wrote her book, “The Road of Hope & Love” as a way to find meaning in the wake of trauma and loss. Quoted from her Amazon book page, “her story is an epitome of how grief can be transformed into a legacy of love teaching the readers valuable guidance and management of emotions.”