I Still Cry For That Little Girl

I Still Cry For That Little Girl

As a grown woman with a career, a family, and a very full, beautiful life I find it difficult to talk to people about my deep discontent with love I wasn’t given as a little girl. In fact, I can talk myself right out of my feelings quicker than I could share them with anyone. […]

These Days Since My Father’s Death

These Days Since My Father’s Death

These days since my father’s death I’ve been moving through life at my usual pace. Seeing me from the outside doesn’t look much different than before, but my insides feel crumpled. It’s as if my insides were a sheet of paper crumpled up into a small ball that has been laid flat on the table […]

The Day My Children Said Goodbye To Their Grandfather

The Day My Children Said Goodbye To Their Grandfather

My friends, it was a cold and windy morning on the 29th of January when my children said goodbye to their Poppy. It had only been 4 short months since he sat at their soccer games cheering from the sidelines. 5 months since he sat in church watching his grandson receive the sacrament of eucharist. […]

One Mother’s Post: How to Survive Christmas with a Hospitalized Father

One Mother’s Post: How to Survive Christmas with a Hospitalized Father

Oh my friends, to suggest that I could teach you how to survive anything is incredibly presumptuous as to any sort of qualifications I have as a person. What the title should read is, I survived Christmas with a hospitalized father. Kind of . . . The aftermath of yesterday laid strewn all over the […]