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Go To The Top
As a young family we didn’t take many big vacations. We decided shortly after Sarah was born to become a one income family, so money was always tight. Big vacations cost big bucks. There was also that little matter of my not wanting to travel much. Let me take a few trips around the yard…
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Groovy Grieving Music
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I’ve read, that things inanimate have mov’d, And, as with living Souls, have been inform’d, By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound. What then am I? Am I more senseless grown Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe!…
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Upcoming Compassionate Friends Conferences
Dennis Apple, author of Life After The Death of My Son: What I’m Learning, sent a note the other day telling me about a Compassionate Friends (TCF) regional conference that he’s part of. So I thought I’d share some info here about a couple of upcoming TCF regional conferences. Sunflowers of Hope Regional Conference of…
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A Prayer Request
Tonight my cousin Denise lost her daughter Jessica. It brings back memories of that night two and a half years ago. Debbie and I were sitting on our couch going through every picture of Richard we could find. We sat there crying, hugging and, if you can believe it, laughing as we looked at the images…
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Crazy Thoughts?
After your kid leaves this earth you do a lot of thinking – at least I do. I come up with some pretty crazy ideas too. A few months before Richard died I was involved in a truck crash. My Toyota pickup truck verses a Big Rig. It ran over me on I-64. It was…