Keep Breathing – Even In Your Darkest Hours
At 69, I realize I’m a member of the walking dead. I move among others, smiling and stringing together clever…
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At 69, I realize I’m a member of the walking dead. I move among others, smiling and stringing together clever…
Continue ReadingMy eyes opened slowly and gently as rays from the sun peaked through the curtains and fell on my pillow.…
Continue ReadingThe funeral Mass was more difficult emotionally for me than I had anticipated. Not wanting to scare my daughter,…
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Continue Reading“I wasn’t going to tell you, but we’re loading up Mad Eye.” I knew this day was close. Mad Eye…
Continue ReadingI can remember the day after my son Tyler’s accident very well. It was 7:30 AM and the first car…
Continue ReadingAs I write this, I’m comfortably sitting on my couch, listening to my two toddlers play with their Finding Dory…
Continue ReadingA lovely family from Nebraska was vacationing in Florida, at The Walt Disney World Resort, having the time of their lives, when…
Continue ReadingA year ago. It seems like a lifetime and only a day's passing in so many ways. But a year…
Continue ReadingI don't believe in divorce. I'm also divorced. I guess that makes me a hypocrite, but it's the truth. As…
Continue ReadingI grew up with a farmer’s mentality when it came to animals. We had some pets but they lived outside.…
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