soul

  • Memorial

    Thoughts after attending a candlelight vigil as well as a memorial service for a 17 year old boy, my son’s friend who died February 29th (see last week’s blog: Supporting) -Be a better mom – I mean, that sums it all up, but specifically: -encourage the friends to come over….

  • Supporting

    ‘I thought we could pull off to the memorial site on our way to the game,’ I said to my son. He and I were heading to what could have been his last hockey game with minor hockey, before he ‘ages out’ with his 18th birthday a few months away….

  • Stories and Guilt

    When the call ended, I sat on the couch in that mall hallway, with the sun coming in from the skylights above, and I just basked in that feeling. Gratefulness. I was in the mall, in the middle of a day, on a Saturday. I had just spoken with one…