I have been working longer hours lately and today I didn’t get a chance to sit and write you a letter. You may think, but

What if you were free.  To be what you feel To scream out your name.  And jump inside the pain Would you?  Live in it. 

I have been seeing a therapist lately.  We are trying to figure out how the heck did I change so much since the loss of

I posted a video about the Life Reentry class on facebook the other day and a woman commented under it, why don’t you put some

It was not like any other day.  Something was in the air.  A heaviness, with no name.  A knowing. A goodbye.  An Ending. A full

I have been trying to write you this letter all day long.  I have so much to tell you that my thoughts are competing for

Before Bjarne passed I used to be very social.  Big dinner parties at my house.  Hanging out with many friends.  Phone calls for lengthy conversations. 

Sometimes you have to grow up in one afternoon.  Maybe in an hour. 5 minutes, even.  I wonder why we are not given longer. Why

When Mother Nature knocks on your door, you get down on your knees and pray.  You pray for your family, your self, your neighbors, the

What would it take to live the life of your choosing.  Not of your dreams, even.  But of your choice.  And then, when you dare

Today is Eric’s 50th birthday.  My second husband’s birthday.  This morning I woke up grateful for him being alive.  Breathing. Moving. Being here to celebrate

Birds are brave.  Not because they fly too high, but because they fly too close.  Too close to our homes and us.  In the last