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Capture Your Grief – Day 26: Community
I remember my first trip to New York to meet my wife’s family. Oh, the countless stories that I could tell (which I may someday). My upbringing consisted of 5 people, who seldom talked, seldom took...
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Capture Your Grief – Day 27: Signs
Aside seeing her name everywhere we turn or hearing her name at every park or store, I truly believe I have seen Bella and heard from her. I chronicle the two events in the series below. If you would...
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Capture Your Grief – Day 28: Special Place
The token answer would be, my heart. I don’t have to do anything but get alone and once the silence sets in, it isn’t long until thoughts of Bella and the what might have been begin to take over....
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Capture Your Grief – Day 29: Healing
Healing is a deceptive word. Many people who are outside the grief, or sometimes in it, believe that healing will come to a place of completion. Time will heal all wounds. The implication would be that...
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Capture Your Grief – Day 30: Growth
The first days, weeks and even months after Bella, there wasn’t much movement let alone growth. I was stuck in the sinking sands of confusion and depression. Some of these restraining emotions still...
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Letting it Go
My latest article at Still Standing Magazine. “As I walked toward the driver’s side of the car, my emotions switched to guilt. What was I doing? Was I just going to erase everything? How could I...
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Forced to Let go.
I stood there as she tore him from my arms. He clasped his hands tight around my neck as she continued to pull him away. I was forced to let him go. I stood there after my weekend as he clung to my...
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He is the Weapon
A “Letting Go” Blog Post. For my son. Marriage. Divorce. Weekend Visits. Airports. Goodbyes. This is my side of the story. Candid. Honest. Brutal. Told for the first time. I walked outside the front...
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Capture Your Grief 2014 Day 4
DAY 4: NOW #CAPTUREYOURGRIEF I have never been a fan of me. I have struggled with self-confidence and never truly believed that what I had to offer would possibly be of any use to anyone else. This has...
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Capture Your Grief 2014 Day 7
Capture your grief. Day 7: Sacred Place I don’t know if I have a sacred place. By default I would say Bella is always with me, in my heart. On most days, she can make wherever I happen to be a sacred...
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