"Is he hurt? Well, he's not dead, is he?." . . The thing that I feared the most happened: I lost my child. My world was thrown off balance. Each day became an awful nightmare from which I couldn't wake up. On April 20th, 2006, a small plane crashed near Bloomington, Indiana. My son, Zachary Novak, was among the five fatalities; all talented musicians, students of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. The grief of losing a child is still with me; however, over time I have learned, to some degree, to cope with this grief-and more importantly, how to remember and celebrate the life...