A Letter to My Mom

It’s been four years since you left us. Four years ago I thought I would die too. From grief. Sometimes I wished that I WOULD die. So I didn’t have to feel that pain, that ache, that emptiness in my heart that just wouldn’t go away. You wouldn’t have been very...

Detours

Road block. Detour. Speed bump. Setback. Hiccup. We all experience them. We all react to them. How we react to them is key.Sam was supposed to graduate from boot camp this past Thursday. She called me last Saturday evening to tell me that she was being held back for 2...

Send a little love.

Rather than judge, always seek to understand. And send a little love. Sometimes we are so quick to judge. I think we are all guilty of this. All of us. Whether we want to admit it or not. I know I did that just this morning. I guess it’s easier, and quicker, than...

Forgiveness

Somehow, I have come to a place of forgiveness. Something I swore I would never be able to do. When I did, when I simply let go, a funny thing happened. I received a random message that involved two of the people that I needed to forgive. It was a message that told me...

Letting go.

I’m sitting here watching Sam, napping on the couch. It is very likely this will be the last time I see her napping like this. Tomorrow morning she heads to Portland, ME where she will spend the night and then leave for Navy boot camp on Wednesday. My heart literally...

Focus on the positive.

Let’s recap over the last week. The world as we know it fell apart within a matter of days with the Coronavirus. It started small. At first a couple of school events were postponed, the start of spring sports put off. We started hearing more and more about the virus....