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• Manifesto
  on Oct 25, 2013 in Adoption Death overview Make a difference
  I have, to this point, had a very full life. I have enjoyed wonderful high points, and have suffered irreparable losses. I’ve been blessed to have a loving family, incredible parents who became my best friends, a terrific brother, a … Continu...
• Grief leaves a mark
  on Sep 26, 2013 in Adoption Death of a child Make a difference adoption grief healing loss time
  Life continues. Time moves forward inexorably. We age. Grief ages too. As I pass through what would have been your 24th birthday, my dear departed daughter, I can only imagine who you might have been, and where your beautiful spirit … Continue...
• Five years ago today
  on May 21, 2013 in Death of a child Grief Journal anniversary child death grief loss
  Five years ago today… Five years ago, at 7:30 a.m., I hugged my daughter and told her to drive safely. “Ok Mom. See you at lunch time!” Five years ago, at 11:00 a.m., two DPS officers came to my work with “something important to talk to me ab...
• Donate blood, donate life
  on Mar 8, 2013 in Death overview Organ donation
  Donate blood lately? I had the honor, if not pleasure, of donating blood recently when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visited our office complex. While there was a good, steady stream of donors, most people in our building did not participate. Why? Well,...
• Dancing again – my path to (almost) happy
  on Mar 8, 2013 in Adoption Death of a child dancing death grief growth healing
  In the months following my daughter’s death, I received many “gifts.” One gift came unexpectedly about four months after the accident. It was a letter from one of her classmates that included a hand-written “prayer” Ava had created for the...
• Turning a page within the same book
  on Oct 12, 2012 in Death of a child Death overview
  I woke up this morning – as many mornings – with you on my mind. It’s been four and a half years since you left me. Four-plus years of heartache and struggle; 54 months of missing you so badly it hurts; lifetimes and ages since I saw the sparkl...
• School begins; I watch my children grow
  on Aug 8, 2012 in Adoption Make a difference adoption children love school
  School starts today, and parents throughout the area are breathing a sigh of relief as the familiar routine begins again. Summer, for parents of younger children, often means a long string of camps – here they are Camp Imagination, town-sponsored a...
• Graduation, Memorial Day connect in mixed emotions
  on Jun 8, 2012 in Adoption Death of a child Make a difference children future loss time
  Two very special dates occurred recently – graduation of the class of 2012 on Friday (May 25), and Memorial Day last Monday (May 28) – one a joyous celebration of accomplishment, the other a heartfelt tribute to tremendous loss. I attended gr...
• Time to die, Part 3: There is a season
  on Apr 13, 2012 in Death overview
  Back in August I wrote about a near-miss with my oldest dog. I had thought it might be time to put her to sleep, but fortunately I was wrong…. then. She had been struggling with all sorts of weird health symptoms for months. Late last fall we disco...
• Another mother grieves
  on Mar 6, 2012 in Death of a child child death grief loss survival teenager
  Our little town – and the world – has suffered the loss of another remarkable young lady, and another mother has joined the most horrible club on earth: the club of grieving parents. I am so very sorry for this woman whom I have never met. She li...

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