Learning to sleep again
This summer I’ve enjoyed traveling for work, play, and family gatherings. A few weeks ago, Annabelle and…
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I Don’t Like Fireworks anymore
I loved walking to the big field behind my grandma’s vacation home and watching the bright flashes…
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Just Keep Swimming
Three months ago my grandma died. For weeks after her death, she showed up in my dreams…
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Goodbye Grandma
My Grandma Dolly, her given name Dolores, but don’t call her that, she hates it, died this…
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Finding Your Life
“Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find…
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Beautiful Broken Boy
It’s hard to watch his body Break His youth Eroded Eve did Take For into the apple…
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Happy Easter
It was a beautiful summer day in 1999, and I was 22 years old. I was months…
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A Fall Walk
Under the cloak of the night I arise before the house stirs and beside my husband’s deep…
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Mansions in Heaven
We’ll get mansions in Heaven one day So they say… To us weary caregivers As we humbly…
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Thy Kingdom Come
The kingdom is near! Let us not fear A babe born in the night To set the…
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Pruning for Self-Care
First appeared in Lovin with Grit & Grace. Pruning for Self-Care When we lived on our rural…
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Just Keep Livin’
In our modern age, and particularly in our American, culture we avoid death; we like to pretend…
