Pain

Sean started singing that song from Hamilton the musical when I told them about a dream I had earlier this week. I woke up to go to the bathroom in the early morning (about 3:00 a.m.) on Monday, as I often do, and immediately remembered that my dad, who seemed to be alive and well, […]

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One year ago today began the last four weeks of my father’s life, though we didn’t know that at the time. It began with a phone call from my mom at 8:41 a.m. on Thursday, June 3rd. I was outside enjoying a beautiful morning and taking pictures of some flowers, that were blooming in our […]

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14 years have now come and gone since we last held you in our arms. 14 years since I carried you, you were born, and, soon afterwards, you died. And what a year this last one has been… I don’t think we’ve experienced a more difficult year since the one in which you were born […]

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Today was our day. At least, it was our day since I was in high school, in the early 1990’s. It began with you waking me up early on an April 1st, that happened to fall on a weekday, when we were hosting my youth group for a Lenten Breakfast/Bible Study/Faith Sharing at our home, […]

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9 years ago I participated in a year-end blog meme for the first time called Rewind 2011, with fun and interesting questions designed to get writers and readers to reflect on our lives in 2011. I did so again the following year, with my Rewind 2012. Ever since I did this writing exercise those two […]

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Today I turned 45. Since entering my forties in 2015, I’d hoped, as well as worked to try to make it possible, for someone else to be #45 (making her our first female President), when I turned 45. What has transpired since that didn’t come to pass has been surreal and heartbreaking for me and […]

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