I Miss the Little Moments with My Mom the Most
You think it’s going to be the big holidays that are hard. The first Thanksgiving without her. The first Christmas.…
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You think it’s going to be the big holidays that are hard. The first Thanksgiving without her. The first Christmas.…
Continue Reading“I take you for my lawful wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,…
Continue ReadingHolidays. Birthdays. The day they physically left us. These are the ones that hit the hardest—the toughest days. But they…
Continue ReadingFor those of you reading this who do not know me, on January 28, 2021, at 12:20 p.m., my husband…
Continue ReadingIt’s so utterly destructive. It’ll knock the wind—no the very oxygen—out of your sails. It’s nauseating. Conflicting. Terrifying. And so…
Continue ReadingAs I write this, my mother-in-law is in the ICU. We don’t expect her to leave. She’s too young. Sixty-four.…
Continue ReadingOh, the inevitable, as we age into our mid to late 30s and beyond. The natural series of life states…
Continue ReadingI have sat here a million times over my life—on good days, on bad days, with friends, with family. I…
Continue ReadingThat heart-wrenching moment when I received that phone call—the one that completely shattered life as I knew it. “He’s gone,”…
Continue ReadingSpring stirs up emotions within me that bring on reflection. I watch the death of winter sink into the ground…
Continue ReadingHave you experienced that feeling when you don't want to wake up but continue sleeping and dreaming the wonderful dream…
Continue ReadingNo one tells you how it will feel. What will trigger it? The emptiness, the anger, the fear, or the…
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