You have to crawl to walk and walk to run to be successful
A note of encouragement from someone I look up to very much, my brother. This has resonated with me all week as I look to what is next. It brings me back to my first child. Her ability has been to...
View ArticleBreathe…Breathe…Breathe…
Editor’s Note: We are honored to have Dana’s words on Her View From Home. I “met” Dana last fall only weeks before her husband passed away from cancer. I found her blog from a friend of mine on...
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Glory
On New Years Eve, six of us got together. We laughed at the funny memories and adventures we experienced over the last year. We cried as we remembered the one person who would not be with us in 2014...
View ArticleSafe Place
My six year old is a child that loves to play with dolls. I guess what little girl doesn’t? With Audrey you can learn anything out about her if you just observe a few minutes as she acts out her life...
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Grieving Widow
I have always been the peace maker in the family and the people pleaser in a friendship. Looking at birth order, some may contribute it to middle child syndrome. I, on the other hand, think it is a...
View ArticleHer World Ripped Away
The year was 1999 and I was sitting in my English class flipping through the university magazine when I saw his photo. I didn’t know who he was, but there was just something about him. I vividly...
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His Death. HIS Love.
Editor’s Note: This is an amazing story of how love can be brought back in to our lives even in the darkest hour. To find out more about this story check out Part One – About Keith and Judy meeting,...
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The Heart of a Father
I was seven and a half months pregnant with my son, Brooks, when my husband suffered a tragic accident. The accident all but killed him; it left him minimally conscious (basically comatose) and over...
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Forever Changed – Learning to Live Without Him
There are moments in our lives that forever change us. Most of these moments are planned or at least expected; graduations, marriage, birth of a child – those moments are thrilling. There are also...
View ArticleI Get Ticked Off
I have to be completely honest. I get ticked off. I deal with jealousy far too frequently. I wrestle with resentment. It’s not pretty but it’s real. Last month would have been my 20th wedding...
View ArticleWho Hijacked My Life?
My only Uncle passed away last month just a couple weeks shy of one year after the death of his wife, my only Aunt. Lately is seems as if the foundational relationships of my life are slipping away one...
View Article2,191 Days
On Sunday November 8, 2015 at 10:00 pm it will have been six years. Six years since the last time I saw your face. Six years equals 2,191 days since the last time I was able to hold your hand. Six...
View ArticleWhen We Becomes Me
I originally wrote this on my first Valentine’s Day as a widow. The sentiments haven’t really changed even though I’m now facing my 7th Valentine’s Day as a widow. Valentines. They used to be lopsided...
View ArticleAn Invitation From the Heart
Some of you know that my late husband and I had something of a whirlwind romance back in 1995. The whirlwind had two aspects to it, the spiritual and the physical. I said spiritual because we both felt...
View ArticleThe Waxing and Waning Tides of Grief
Grief is not something you get over or get through. Grief is not predictable nor is it a linear progression. Grief is as unpredictable as a riptide. There is no possible way to know when it will show...
View ArticleBut I’m Still Here
Nighttime – two years ago looked like this: I’d wake up to nurse a crying, hungry newborn. I’d scoop her up, unwrap her swaddle and bend to change her, my post-partum back and hips aching. I’d finish...
View ArticleYoung Married Couple Dies Too Soon But Their Legacy Lives
April is Donate Life month. As someone who has been the recipient of donor tissue (hello, heart surgery!), clearly it’s something I support. But I want to tell you about my friend Katie. For 10 years,...
View ArticleDandelion Days
It’s spring, my eyes are running from allergies and the yard is filled with dandelions. Most people would be depressed about that and on their way to fetch the weed-killer, but not me. Sure, the...
View ArticleWhere Are You When I Need You?
We’re moving…again. I know the process for this, I’ve done it 10 times already. This time is different. This time I’m moving from Michigan to South Carolina. I’ve changed states before but not alone,...
View ArticleTo My Son: His Love Saved Us
I look at this picture and my heart is flooded with emotion. I remember every detail about this day. I remember the joy; I remember the sorrow. I remember the hope; I remember the disappointment. I...
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