Heaven’s Pennies
It’s always a pleasure to open the mailbox and find a handwritten note from a loved one, especially when it is from one of your grown children. I eagerly opened the envelope from my oldest son, recently graduated from college…
It’s always a pleasure to open the mailbox and find a handwritten note from a loved one, especially when it is from one of your grown children. I eagerly opened the envelope from my oldest son, recently graduated from college…
My son, Dan, had a special way of igniting a spark in the heart of anyone who met him. However, when he was killed trying to tell the world an important story, the light in my life went out. My…
Time should be absolute, shouldn’t it? One minute is 60 seconds. One hour is 60 minutes. One day is 24 hours. It doesn’t change. It is absolutely definable. There is no variation unless you count leap year. So why isn’t…
There was a game we played when we were little, my sister and I. It had a certain set of rules and unique characteristics. Our playing field was the living room, our teams were Kathryn vs. Karla, and our referee…
On December 14, 2001, my 25-year-old daughter, Melissa, suffered a cardiac arrest followed by a coma. She died fourteen days later. Her doctors concluded that the ultimate cause of her death was due to complications of an undiagnosed eating disorder….
Twenty-three years ago, on the day we buried our sons Kevin John and Kareem Anthony, my wife and I attended our first TCF meeting. I can still remember walking into that room that was divided into two groups; one group…
I’ve always heard there are moments that divide your life into two times: before and after. The day JFK was shot. The day the Twin Towers fell. For me, that day was September 12, 2014. The day my granddaughter died….
My uncle’s car was sitting in our driveway when I came home from a night out, and I got a sick feeling in my stomach. I walked up the driveway, and my uncle asked me to get in the car;…
“The good fairy isn’t coming,” my mother said. She often said this, not to hurt my feelings or quell my belief in fairies, but make me responsible for myself. I learned this lesson as a child and have applied it…
When I was 20 years old, I was awakened in the middle of the night to the terrible news that my only brother, Scott, and my cousin, Matthew, had been killed together in a car accident. It seemed inconceivable that…
