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To the Grandparents Gone Too Soon

Dear Grandma, I am one of the blessed ones to have grown up with you by my side. You taught me to crack an egg, do my own laundry, and that there is…

Man, I wish the time we had together would have lasted longer. It was only two years we shared before the cancer started slowly taking you away from…

My last living grandparent passed away in October, and I’ve been thinking a lot about life after grandparents. My grandfather was 87-years-old when…

Last fall our family lost a great man at the age of 79 to cancer. It was the second time our Grandfather faced the ugly cancer diagnosis, but…

Mother’s Day of 2010 found us at the hospital. In the late morning, we had stopped by my mom’s house to visit with her and her mother before…

I feel big feelings. I don’t mind the intensity of my feelings when they are pleasant, but when the storms of life swirl in, fear and pain can…