It’s Complicated At an average rate of 80 times a minute, the (complex and complicated) heart beats about 115,000 times in one day or 42 million times in a year.…
YOU MATTER. Yesterday, I had an experience that opened up a wound I thought had been healed. The fact is, grief never ever goes away. It creeps up and grabs…
Crosses We Bear We do not know the crosses we’ll have to bear. We do not know what our future holds or the lessons we are destined to share. It…
Today I’m going to give a behind-the-scenes look at how I wrote my book, what it was really like, why I’m sharing my story and a little back-story on how…
One never knows where the heart will lead, if only we are still long enough to listen to its beat. – Victoria Volk Yesterday, I had stopped in at one…
Thirty years ago today, March 31st, my life changed forever. I was eight-years-old and lost my father to colon cancer. Recently, I reconnected with my father’s only living brother, who…
Several posts now I’ve talked about grief from the perspective of losing someone one loves. Grief takes on many forms, though. We can grieve the loss of a friendship, despite…
Today, I attended the funeral of a relatively young man who leaves behind a wife and five children. His passing was sudden, and not to mention, unexpected. On the back of…
You know that old saying, “what doesn’t kill you – makes you stronger?” I think when it comes to grief and really, any difficult challenge in life, that’s very true.…
As Christmas approaches, people are preparing their homes for guests. Maybe you’re preparing your own home or possibly traveling to the home of someone you know. Regardless, maybe there…