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Grief
September 10, 2020
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What Will Life Be Like Without My Dad?

“How are you doing?” friends ask with sympathy in their eyes. I give a standard reply because I don’t even know what I could say that would…

Grief, Marriage
July 31, 2020
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To the Bride Whose Parents Are Watching From Heaven

It will easily be one of the hardest days of your life. And nothing will be able to change that. For most little girls, you have a vision or a plan…

Faith, Grief
June 20, 2020
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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.…

Death of a Parent, Faith, Grief
June 10, 2020
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The Grey Sweater

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…

Grief
June 7, 2020
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Sometimes I Find Myself Lost in That Last Goodbye

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…

Grief, Loss
May 25, 2020
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The Cemetery Fills Me With Comfort and Sorrow

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…

Grief
May 21, 2020
7 Minute Read

A Funeral Luncheon For 120

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,…

Grief
May 15, 2020
4 Minute Read

Learning to Live Without My Mom is the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done

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…

Grief
May 12, 2020
5 Minute Read

Your Spirit Lives On in Her

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…

Grief
May 8, 2020
5 Minute Read

I’m Missing My Mother-in-Law on Mother’s Day

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…

death of a parent

What Will Life Be Like Without My Dad?

To the Bride Whose Parents Are Watching From Heaven

My Daddy Waits For Me in Heaven

The Grey Sweater

Sometimes I Find Myself Lost in That Last Goodbye

The Cemetery Fills Me With Comfort and Sorrow

A Funeral Luncheon For 120

Learning to Live Without My Mom is the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done

Your Spirit Lives On in Her

I’m Missing My Mother-in-Law on Mother’s Day

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