Today I celebrate you and all that you brought to this world, our family and your friends. I celebrate the vibrant energy you brought to everything you did and the love you shared with so many. I celebrate the gift of being your mom remembering the very moment you entered this world. Your birthday is always filled with so many mixed emotions for me—joy that I got to be your mom and absolute devastation that you left this earth way too early in such a tragic way. On your birth

“The Emotional Muscles of Grief Theory (Cacciatore, 2010) posits that grief is not something that diminishes over time but instead...

How can it be that the boy who shattered us with his death at 16 would now be a man of 30 years? So many lost years, so many lost hours,...

September 23, 2010 was T.J.’s last birthday here on earth. I wonder what he was wishing for as he blew out his birthday candles for the...

December 1st. 12 years since that fateful day where my life moved from before to after. Before T.J. died. After T.J. died. And the before...

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December 1st is once again looming before me. December 1st will mark 11 years since T.J. left this earth. My heart is heavy. I feel the...

This week a very dear friend gave birth to a precious baby boy. My heart filled with JOY at the news and since this was T.J.’s birthday...

Today marks 10 years since T.J. took his life on a cold, dark December evening. 10 years. . .a decade. The dictionary defines a decade as...