Dads

As you may know from my last blog I have lived in this house for almost 13 years now and much of it sits exactly as it has since Brian died 5 years ago but every once in a while I will come upon a hand written note by him tucked into a book or…

It’s been awhile since I’ve written a blog.   I’ve been going through a lot emotionally and I have found that it’s easier for me to write about it once I’ve come through on the other side and have had time to reflect.   I’m not on the other side yet but felt compelled to write about…

I started this blog almost a year ago on the 5th anniversary of my husbands death.   I can’t tell you how therapeutic it has been and for that I am so very grateful. As I go through a new season in my life I realized that my blog sometimes sounds as though I’m stuck in…

  Art was essentially my step dad and grandpa to my kids.    Together for 17 years he and my mother never married but that didn’t diminish their relationship.   They were certainly a team that worked well together. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May of 2017 and passed away peacefully on Friday,…

I’ve always loved spring when the earth comes alive again but it’s all the more glorious now since Brian died.    He died in the bleakness of January.   Matched his frame of mind too I suppose.   Everything so brown and dead and lifeless looking.    I vividly remember mentioning non-chalantantly that “the news…