How Sunny Got Her Name
Photo of Sunny, six weeks old—Our first moment together and our first kiss Everyone called her Sunny but her real name was Sunshine Hope. I was the only one who [...]
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Aug, 2023
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Aug, 2023
Finding the Right Love Song
geralt from Pixabay First things first—Love isn't a noun. Love is a verb revealed through actions, not words. Before I continue, I’d like to share the ways I learned about [...]
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Sep, 2022
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
Endoscopic view of flowing red blood cells in a vein, illustration In the early 1970s, I read P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, a novel by James Kirkwood, Jr. [...]
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Aug, 2022
Seventeen
August 17th, 17 years ago. I’d been home only a few minutes after an afternoon spent at my mother’s bedside when a feeling flooded me and I knew I had [...]
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Aug, 2021
Grief Has No Shelf Life
August 17th, again. The anniversary of the day my mother took her last inhale and never again exhaled. After hours with her, I’d stepped out of the room only [...]
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Apr, 2021
The Day I Died
I didn't know I would die that morning. Why would I? I'd only been 48 years old for eight days, still relatively young in 1961. Just a few [...]
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Feb, 2021
Life On A Limb
Life on a Limb Life is precarious, like living on the slender limb of a tree. Most of the time we don't know this. Once death moves closer, [...]
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May, 2020
Amidst a Pandemic by Kathryn Mattingly – Guest Post
I am delighted that award winning author Kathryn Mattingly has generously allowed me to share with you her personal, yet universal, post about the challenges she has been facing while [...]
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Dec, 2019
The Greatest Gift
After a night of limited sleep, I woke up on a four-foot long hospital couch and greeted my 70th birthday. I wore the longest inverted crescent moon frown I can [...]
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Oct, 2019
When the Light Is Gone
In the darkness, what I couldn’t see began to clear and take form. Perhaps life is like this—absence tells us what is important. There is a fullness in those empty [...]