Dear Mom, Until We Meet Again
Mom, I pray to the stars that someday, somewhere we pick up where we left off. Before the Alzheimer’s diagnosis.…
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Mom, I pray to the stars that someday, somewhere we pick up where we left off. Before the Alzheimer’s diagnosis.…
Continue ReadingShe left this world with an endless faith while mine became broken and shattered. She taught me to believe in…
Continue ReadingWe drive by a hospital. It’s not the one my mother was in, but it still brings the same sting…
Continue ReadingTo the average person, it was a typical Wisconsin Friday in October—wet, dreary, and a bit nippy. To my wife…
Continue ReadingFor the last sixteen months of her life, I was one of my mother’s primary caregivers, and now that she’s…
Continue ReadingEveryone has heard about the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Society often assumes the stages…
Continue ReadingMy daughter wobbled toward me in silver, square-toed go-go boots, one heel dislodged and flopping against our hallway’s faux wood…
Continue ReadingTwo weeks after my daughter was born, my dad drove from Pennsylvania to our home in Florida to stay with…
Continue ReadingIt was a few weeks after I lost my mom, and I was silently praising myself for how well I…
Continue ReadingSince my mom died almost two years ago, my life has mostly been defined by the word "loneliness." However, in…
Continue ReadingI cried in church this morning. It wasn’t the beautiful hymns sung by the angelic choir. It wasn’t the poignant…
Continue ReadingIt’s been 14 years since she left. It’s like a lifetime ago and yesterday at the same time. The loss…
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