July 1, 2011 Last week my two beautiful sons, Sean Robert and Kyle Joseph, were taken from this world in a horrible and tragic way. Despite the tremendous loss to all of us, their two beautiful souls are now giving us the inspiration, strength and positive energy to change the world into what they envision [...]

As I sit in our NYC hotel room tonight, I am overcome with the emotions of the day and of that fateful day ten years ago that changed the face of our country. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Luther and I had packed our bags preparing to grab a cab for our flight [...]

Twenty years ago today, two Army officers in uniform pulled into our driveway with the worst news a parent can hear. We still miss our dear Roger everyday. His memory is alive in our hearts. We just hope others have sweet memories of him as well. I share this haunting performance in tribute to Roger [...]

Nineteen years ago tonight, Drew and Jeremiah were in Indianapolis, IN, at the concert they had been looking forward to for months. Neither of them knew they had just hours to live. They were fifteen and eighteen and invinsible. Their futures were before them. Drew was headed to Rhodes College within weeks. Jeremiah was headed [...]

Victoria Findlay rode a bike on the beach on Hilton Head Island, SC on June 23rd.  Both she and I cried!  Tears flood my eyes tonight recalling riding beside her as she waved at everyone she saw, never ceasing to pedal what she called her “adult tricycle.”  With a smile as wide as the ocean beside [...]

Back in May of 2009, my dear friend Dinah Taylor allowed me to post her lamentations on the day when her son, Young Jim, had been dead as long as he had lived…eighteen/eighteen.  I had already seen that milestone pass in 2007 with my middle son Jeremiah.  On July 23, 2007, Jeremiah had been an angel for fifteen [...]

     It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.  I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.      It doesn’t interest me how old you are.  I want to know if you will be looking like a fool for love, for your [...]

We have no promise in this life That secures us a safe journey He said He would be with us From now until eternity This faith does sustain us We live by it day by day As for hope of a tomorrow He said, "I am with you all the way" So we give birth [...]

Let me wrestle with memories Rooted deep within my being That I have cast away, away After the War of Fight and Fleeing   How I remember the young struggles The jealousy and competition When whole galaxies we juggled And life was more than repetition   He was my friend in golden fields Who left [...]

 SHADOWS Alone though I appear They are still beside me. Memories possess their faces - they will forever guide me. And as I fall they kiss me - and I know they will not be forgotten For they lift me with their wings - before I hit the bottom. It is then that I realize [...]