One Pink Balloon

You'd think that with all of my writing, I would have worked through the more difficult moments. You'd think I would have written...

My grief is changing.  I can feel it.  It's shifting and transforming.  It's settling in. At the beginning, everything is so raw a...

This week has been really rough for me.  The Royal Baby was born on Monday, I saw my grief counselor Tuesday, I visited my grandfather in th...

Today, I am going to my classroom to start getting things organized for the start of the school year.  It is not going to be easy.  The begi...

Yet another quote that is untrue.  I hate it when people say this to me.   It makes me feel like my pain is being dismissed.  "I know y...

"Everyone's hell is different.  It's not all fire and pain.  The real Hell is your life gone wrong." - What Dreams May Co...

Saturday was "Cupcakes to Cherish", a Cherishing the Journey fundraiser I have been helping with for the past several weeks.   I ...

As part of the photography project I am participating in,  I have been assigned to write about what I am grateful for in my life right now. ...

Yesterday, I was filling out paperwork to return from leave.   As I entered my tax exemptions for payroll, I got to the part for children.  ...

It has been 117 days since I lost my daughter.  2,808 hours.  168, 480 minutes.  10, 108, 800 seconds.  10, 108, 801.  10, 108, 802... Wh...

In scrolling through my newsfeed a few weeks ago, an interesting blog link caught my eye.   It was an online photography course directed to ...

Today, I was looking at updates from Return to Zero and I saw someone posted a picture in memory of their child with a verse from "You ...

You might think you know what my life has become.    You might imagine some residual heartbreak on the edges of my days...but hey...I'm ...

Some days are just really hard.  Some days, I wake up covered in sadness and I stay wrapped in that blanket all day.  Some days, I don't...

Imagine two bathtubs side by side.   Go ahead and get fancy, and think of those huge, white porcelain tubs with the claw feet and the long, ...

In the three months since my life split into two, I have met several completely amazing women.  All of them at different points in their jou...

I have always been a fan of Pink - the musician, not the color.  Her songs usually fall into one of two categories:  Badass Attitude or Mean...

There is a feeling of emptiness that accompanies loss that is almost unexplainable. It's as if a deep canyon has opened up in your soul,...