Starting to think about the holidays again. It's hard not to when everywhere you go there are Christmas Trees and Thanksgiving displays. My first Thanksgiving without Katie was horrible. All I could think about was the last Thanksgiving and how Katie was such a big part of it. It was her freshman year at Swarthmore…
This year will mark the ninth anniversary of my daughters tragic death. My grief is still there but I have learned to go on in this new life. She will always be in my heart and in my mind and I still think of her hundreds of times each day. I no longer dwell on the tragedy of her death, but on the beauty of her life. I…
Yesterday I was away from home for most of the day doing a workshop for a college ceramics class about 50 min away. I needed to eat lunch on the road and pulled into a Burger King drive through on the way there. I needed to keep moving. I ordered a chicken sandwich and ate only the chicken. Could not drive and eat a salad…