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My Daddy Waits For Me in Heaven

This year, there will be no Father’s Day card or phone call. There will only be loving words, mumbled through tears, to the memory of my father.…

Folding the laundry gets me down sometimes. It’s a mindless activity, really. My brain runs on autopilot as it remembers the old days when laundry…

Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. I have to take myself out of that moment. The one from two years ago when I lost my mother. The moment…

It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shining with such intensity I find myself squinting. Every time I venture to my mother’s grave, the sun shines…

There were lots of things I didn’t help with when my dad died in June of 2017. I have acute and poignant memories of many things, good and bad,…

I wake up in a cold sweat. Ugh, I did it again. She came back to me, and all I could do was be mad. I never got to say goodbye. I think that’s why…

They say life has a way of giving you exactly what you need when you least expect it. That when one life ends, another is born. Some even say that…

As each Mother’s Day approaches, I busy myself with preparations and count my blessings. I love any reason to celebrate, and this holiday always…

Dad, You were my first protector. You were instrumental in my daughter’s world and her first strong male role model after her own father left us.…

January 31st, 2020 was day 365. Exactly 365 more days than I thought my heart was ever going to be able to handle. Approximately 372 days earlier I…