Grace Notes #17: Grief at One Year

July 25, 2019

What was there is no longer there: Not his touch, not his words: “I prefer you without clothes” Not the …

A Tribute to My Sister Esther – 1937-2017

April 23, 2017

I have her shoes, the new white Skechers she’d packed carefully in her “wear home from the hospital” bag. There’s …

September 14, 2015

“Everything is different now,” a friend said last week. At 80, she questioned why she’d had a $400 increase in …

October 20, 2014

One of our brothers-in-law passed away suddenly last week, and, just like that, many lives stopped to mourn, and we …