I have been thinking about the word closure. You hear it bandied about when people who are not grieving themselves talk about grief. Some of my fellow bloggers blame its overuse or use at all on the media during times of tragedy. I don't know maybe that is where it started. For me, I first felt it when Cory died and four months later I ran into a fella who worked down the street from my office. I was on my way to the bank and we met up at the corner. He asked how I was. I t

Have you seen this CNN report? http://www.cnn.com/…/pkg-girl-fighting-cancer-kicked-out-of… I am outraged after seeing this CNN report about a little girl who has just completed treatment for leukemia who was kicked out of Catholic middle school because of her attendance and academic standing. We are talking middle school. She had attended this school her whole school life and was understandably upset when they as she described, "got rid of me." As the parent of a child wh

I saw a post on Facebook the other day. It asked, 'If you could have five minutes more with someone who had crossed Over the Rainbow Bridge who would you choose?' Which then leads to thoughts such as what would you want to say and why...etc. For people who have experienced the loss of multiple loved ones it would be hard to choose wouldn't it? This post gave me pause. My brain is usually going ninety miles a minute so it was good for me to push my chair back and go park myse