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 [...]

Jeremiah will celebrate his thirty-third birthday tomorrow, July 4th, 2010 back in the spiritual realm from which he came.  Thirty-three…how is that possible?  Why will he always be fifteen to me?  His brother Drew will always be eighteen to me as well.  They lived a total of thirty-three years.  There is that number..33..33..33. Jeremiah has [...]

  Father to Father   Father to Father in common bereaved Father to Father I share your grief Father to Father I share your pain Father to Father to love is gain Father to Father both full of love Father to Father with sons up above Father to Father some problems we lick Father to [...]

November 15, 2009 Andrew’s 28th birthday On Andrew’s 28th birthday, I went up to the cemetery for a visit.  I let a balloon go, and just sat and thought about him for a while.  I started thinking about what people told me the day of his funeral.  Although I didn’t see it, several people told [...]

When you remember me,     it means that you have carried something of who I am with you,   that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are.   It means that you can summon me back to your mind   even though countless years and miles may stand between [...]