Looking back……..

Four years ago on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, we gathered around Nick’s frail body to say “good bye” and witnessed the passing of Nick from this life to the next. So much has happened in the last four years. Erich and Evan both graduated...

What it takes to be truly thankful…………

In this world we are usually going to be able to look around and see someone who has it a little easier, someone who seems to have at least one less thing to worry about, someone who appears to “have it all.” But if we really open our eyes, we are going to...

Happy Birthday, Evan!!!!!!!!!!!

Evan, if I could hop on a plane this morning, I would! I’d fly straight to LA and take a taxi right to your apartment! And I’d hug you and tell you just how much you are loved by me and by your dad and by all of your family. But since I can’t, I...

What Support Groups Are For………..

I never really thought I needed a “support group,” but I’ve learned there is something very special and healing about a community of people who share the same struggle. I am more of a “reader” than a “writer” in the online...

When Life is a Mess and You are Stuck………..

She was only five, but she spoke to me in the midst of a classroom full of kindergartners trying to finish a sequencing task. As one child cried because she didn’t know how to use scissors, this particular, brown-eyed, mussed-up-haired girl looked up and said,...