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When the long goodbye feels too short.
This past July after many years battling Frontal Lobe Dementia we kissed my mom on this earth one final time… I got a phone call from my Stepfather on July 1st letting me know that mom had changed a bit…
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The gift of a name…
A beautiful memory worth sharing…. The Gifts in the Grief…( I wrote this back in 2019) I hope you don’t mind as we continue to share. Our little Stella is already working so much in our lives. Sharing to me…
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Somewhere in the middle of it all…
I have had so many things to ponder these past weeks of May. May is the month of Mothers…and my mom is currently declining from frontal lobe dementia. I talk about it here from time to time and on my…
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You can’t get it back…
It is mothers day and I feel the need to share something heavy I have been carrying for sometime that has really overtaken me today as we celebrate mothers day. It is a kind of grief that is hard to…
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All Things…
I share with your today something I often carry in the quiet. I carry a deep ache, a longing, a grief as I watch my mom slowly slip away from here dementia and I don’t like to talk about it,…
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When the waves knock you down…
I felt like I entered the year of 2021 excited and now I am holding my breath… So many losses in 2020…and I am not even talking about the virus my friends. and I felt as if the waves of…
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How do you begin?
I have thought about and wanted to write a book since I was a little girl. I remember writing on my dads first office computer…I must have been 7 or 8 and it was some sort of reflection on life…
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Devotionals & Reflections, Grace found in Grief, Mindset in the Mother HOOD, Reflections of the Heart
Living in the Messy Middle…
It is no mystery that life is not always easy. Yes we can keep a positive focus. Yes we can work to have gratitude in all things. Yes we can shift our focus, or “Pivot” which felt like the third…
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Your Sacred Heart is Our Home.
Your Sacred Heart is our Home…A reflection of Psalm 84 by Kelley Brown Lord you are my refugeYou Hold all that my heart longs for and holds dear.I thirst for Your Shelter.To hear the beating of your Sacred Heart is…
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The Art of Overthinking…
If I could be an expert in anything in life…it would not be nutrition, wellness, marriage, theology, childbirth, nature, gardening, housekeeping… None of those things… I would be and expert in the Art of Overthinking. I am an expert at…