Doing Things Backwards – May 2023

It is not expected in our culture that children will die… We will leave them. They won’t leave us.And then it is over…It is an affront. It is a reversal of nature.-Martha Whitmore Hickman When I decided to publish my book Dear Bobby, I began an internet search for...

The Vortex

April 2023 My inner self was a house divided against itself. -St. Augustine Several years ago, a friend of mine was describing the drama that was occurring with several of her family members and said that being around them was like getting pulled into a vortex. Their...

Four Years

March 2023 You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also:  Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through. -Vincent Van Gogh  When we’ve lost someone we love, in our case our son Bobby, four years is both an eternity and yesterday. We no longer...