Moving from my Willowbrook house was a bittersweet thing, even though I knew it was the right thing. From the day the real estate agent […]
Home
My mom and dad divorced before I was born. Based on pictures of my earliest days, she and I lived with her parents – my […]
Survivor
For all our married years, we had done most everything together as a family. Over half my life to that point consisted of day-to-day memories […]
Grief 2
Grief is more than sadness. It’s a journey through a range of emotions over an indeterminate length of time with the hopeful eventual destination being […]
Grief
“How long will you grieve…?” I was reading through 1 and 2 Samuel in September 2018, studying the life of David – the best example, […]
Forgiving Is Not Forgetting
It was during football season that year that someone suggested I needed to forgive. And they were right, of course. Without forgiving, bitterness would take […]
Cordial Co-parents
I think the hardest part of the entire divorce was telling the children and trying to keep life “normal” for them. My oldest son intermittently […]
Crystal-clear Conundrum
My anniversary was hard that year. It fell between my brother dying and his memorial service and was about a month before the “divorce for […]
We Fail Love
Holidays. Spring Break. Vacation. House. Furnishings. Vehicles. The list went on. I was sitting on my side of the king size bed, head leaned back […]
Mockery of Marriage
The subject of divorce is hard. Reliving this part of my story had me in a funk for days. Divorce wasn’t what I believed in […]