Dear Dad

Dear Dad 3 years today dad … since you passed away.  I miss you. 3 years since your body let you down and decided it wasn’t going to play ball anymore, that it would allow pneumonia and some sort of dis-ease to take you to the other side. I miss you.  This week has been weird....

It’s not OK

It’s not ok.  It’s never ok. I started a blog last week.  My first two paragraphs: I have just read yet another news article about a 24 year old mum of one, found dead in her home with her 5 year old daughter asleep in the next room, presumably (and hopefully) unaware of the terror and...

A New Normal

Nothing can prepare you for the death of a parent.  We all know it is going to happen ~ some day, but you don’t tend to dwell on how that might feel, what that empty space will actually feel like.  Well I didn’t anyway. My Dad passed away on August 30th.  Feels weird writing that to be...