Every mother, particularly new ones, discover a whole new realm of fear once they have given birth. I freaked out on the car ride home with my first born son. Every vehicle on the road was a speeding bullet headed toward my baby. I was a nervous wreck on the freeway. They don’t really warn you about that, even in “What to Expect” and they are great at giving expecting mothers things to worry about.
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Several weeks ago, I posted about a family struggling with their child’s fatal illness. Sadly, that child passed away Friday nite. He was too young. The news rocked our community and my soul. It left me begging the question “why” into the hot, suffocating air.
Category: Death & Dying, Life's Lessons
I have been on vacation and generally running amok like a chicken with my head cut off. Shocker. Who the hell isn’t, right? During the amokness, I have been racking (or is it wracking?) my brain trying to come up with a funny blog topic. I’ve had a few false starts, but nothing really culminated into something I could proudly re-read to myself the next day (don’t pretend you don’t do this). Maybe the funny post hasn’t come to me because I needed to write something (dare I say it)…. un-funny.
There are many things in life that can be difficult to deal with. Take death, for example. You know it is an inevitable part of life, but that doesn’t help a lot when you lose someone you love. For people like myself, who might have control issues, that feeling of helplessness is unbearable. How to rectify it?
Category: Death & Dying, Just Journaling, Religion & Beliefs
