i'm going to make it (after all)

Do you ever have someone else's loss overwhelm you? A couple years ago, someone close to me lost someone close to him. I'd only met...

I haven't talked (or wrote) much about the loss of my long-time canine companion, my beagle-mutt, Bailey. Honestly, I hadn't even wa...

I wasn't ready to discuss what happened to Bailey, but I'm feeling stronger now and am able to open up a bit. I love Bailey, and I m...

For my Grandma Jo's memorial weekend, we had aunts, uncles, cousins, and so many others here in town. Aunt Gerry and Wayne flew in from ...

I think about Grandma Jo a lot. It's been almost four months, and I think it's really starting to sink in that she's not around ...