Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

“Love never ends.” My favourite bible passage from Saint Paul begins with those words. In the days leading up to…

Another birthday

On every birthday, I pay a visit to my parent’s grave. I stand over their resting place and remind myself…

I remember how I agonized over choosing the flowers for my father’s funeral. Dad died a few weeks before we…

In the last years of my father’s life, I spent more time with him than ever before. I knew I…

May is one of my favorite months. Trees have started to bud, annuals are being sought out and planted, and…

My father was the youngest of nine children. When his oldest brother died in 1999, Dad became the only living…

My grandmother would have celebrated a birthday today. How old she would have been and how long since she has…

Mom left us before the start of spring. In her last days, I remember trudging through slush pools in the…

When you grieve, you hope one day you will overcome that ache of their absence, of wanting to turn back…

I began my lessons in grief and loss early on. My paternal grandfather died when I was ten years old…