Garden helper, Denver 2014Day after diagnosisGlenwood Springs, 2 weeks after diagnosisGlenwood Springs, 7 months after diagnosisLeaving Children’s Hospital, 1 year after diagnosis June 12, 2017: The date stares back at us on the calendar for the third...
Piper should be turning six today. The age you proudly use two hands to reflect your years. This isn’t at all like we imagined it would be. What can a birthday continue to mean after death? For me, it still means everything...
Michaela Joy Photography What can be said of a day like today? Our perfect girl has been gone from this life for a year now. One. Whole. Year. Four complete seasons, 365 entire days. Try as we’d like to stop it, the sun kept right on rising and setting, the...
This past weekend, as we attended the celebration of life for another remarkable human taken too soon by cancer, Harlow quietly watched as family members shed tears while sharing memories and testaments of love. It’s a scene you expect to find at this sort...
Maybe it is a byproduct of grief, or just my nature, but I often find myself getting stuck on a single thought. Something will come to mind, and I’ll toss it around in my head like a rock tumbler, over and again. Exposing different facets,...
