Articles about Sequel Makers

Roger Miller: One in a Million

Roger embraces his path in life better than most. It isn’t easy being a widower (Sequel Maker, in Jack’s speak). He pays attention to his grief and knows that he can live in harmony with it. Last ...

December 04, 2024

Emerging From Our Local Roots: A Spotlight on Chris Burke

At Jack’s Caregiver Coalition, we’re passionate about supporting caregivers and celebrating their strength. In 2025, we’re launching One Million Strong, an ambitious campaign aiming to raise $1 ...

September 23, 2024

Meet Mike Dykema, Sequel Maker

Mike Dykema joined Jack’s in August 2023. Mike saw that he was heading for heartache and knew that he needed the kind of help that only a someone unfamiliar to him, but with a similar experience ...

Sequel Makers: A Conversation with Eric Schlueter By Mike McGarry

Although Eric is ten years younger than me, he is one month my senior in grief. His wife, Melissa, died on June 1, 2023, from complications caused Fanconi Anemia (FA), a condition she’d lived with ...

January 16, 2024

Sequel Makers - Firing On All Cylinders

The Sequel Makers First Pitch Party On August 30th, 2023 (National Grief Awareness Day) The need for Sequel Makers started at our Caregiver Klatches in 2019, when more and more we would hear from ...

October 26, 2023

Empty The Boxes, A Sequel Makers Pilot Program Story

Jeff Myhre I love making stuff happen. So I was particularly excited on a sunny unseasonably warm Monday morning to welcome Heather Erickson into my home to pilot one of the new Sequel Makers ...

October 26, 2023

From Caregiver to Sequel Maker: The Klatch from a Woman's POV

The Erickson Family in 2016 On our third anniversary, we learned that my husband, Dan, had stage IV lung cancer and could expect to live another 6 months. Three years later, he was still alive, ...

An Update From The Sequel Makers Development Team

Our Sequel Maker team has been busy the first half of this year collaborating, debating, and defining what the Sequel Maker program will become. Most importantly we have defined it's purpose (why it ...