Love Letters; Reflections on Living With Loss

Profound loneliness and confusion often follow the death of a loved one. Author Andris A. Baltins unexpectedly lost Nancy his best friend, childhood sweetheart, wife, and the mother of their children to ovarian cancer. These letters to Nancy following her death share an intimate story of recovery from loss and the enduring presence of love. Baltins felt called to write the book as a necessary process of working through her death, and what he was to make of himself after she had gone. Many of the author s experiences particularly some of the rituals can be of benefit to others and his wish is to share them with a larger audience who find themselves in the unthinkable situation of having lost a life-partner or someone very close to them.

Andris A. Baltins is a graduate of Yale University and University of Minnesota Law School. He practices business law and serves on the boards of various public, private, and not-for-profit companies. He and his wife Nancy to whom this book is written and who died shortly before their twenty-eighth wedding anniversary have two children. Born of Latvian immigrants, Andris lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Del Mar, California.