Have you ever felt like no one in the world can feel the level of grief or sadness that you feel? Parents who lose their children sometimes report that their grief feels like no other kind of loss. Children simply are not supposed to die before their parents do. It’s a basic tenant of our… [Read More]
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Birthdays without Her
(Humpback whale exhales.) What have you wanted the most in your life? For me, the answer is clear. No one ever wanted anything more than I wanted my daughter to survive her brain tumor. My heart only had one desire… for my child to live. I was a walking ball of neediness … I… [Read More]
It is Daddy, No Matter How Old I Am
What do you call your dad? There are so many names used. Dad, Daddy, Pop, Papa. Pa, Pappy, Padre, Father? My Daddy, died on June 8th, just weeks ago. Yes, I still call him Daddy. It’s probably a Texas thing. In the south, grown women call their fathers Daddy and their mothers Momma. I didn’t… [Read More]
Paying It Forward
Have you ever had a strong premonition that you needed to do something? A prompting? This week my husband, Gary, and I cleaned and scrubbed a small condominium in the sleepy beach town of San Clemente. Our daughter, Brittany, lived there when she was getting her Master’s degree in Education in 2009. She was free… [Read More]
There is Beauty Everywhere
What do you think is the noisiest city in North America? I traveled to New York from my home in Southern California this week. The second thing I noticed was the noise. Honking. I mean leaning on the horn, loud and long. The first thing I noticed was that my taxi didn’t have a meter,… [Read More]
Love You Always
Can you imagine having a song in your head that you can’t sing? Every time you tried to sing the song you cried so hard that you were unable to sing it? Recently, I read about how the children’s book Love You Forever, by Canadian author, Robert Munsch came to be written. The author and… [Read More]