Deep Thoughts

The End of an Era

October 31, 2010

My mom’s best friend was living life yesterday. Healthy. Happy. Ready for her church’s Fall Festival today. She woke up with a headache this morning. She’s dead tonight. Aneurysms are like that. And so many people who loved her are slowly absorbing the reality that this fast and furious day has brought us. My brother [...]

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The Curvy Road

October 28, 2010

Sometimes perspective slaps my face. Hard. Tonight I learned that a friend lost her son yesterday. He had surgery earlier this month, was home and recuperating beautifully, and just died. He was barely 18. I have another friend whose 12-year-old daughter is in her third year of battling a rare and incurable form of cancer.  [...]

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Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

October 15, 2010

I tried to write this first thing this morning, but I couldn’t. My day was going to be full and I didn’t feel like I could let myself have the therapeutic cry I knew this post would induce. One of my little ones, Snap, was sick. I was trying to make a plan for him [...]

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Thank You, Robert Edwards

October 5, 2010

The Nobel Prize in medicine was announced yesterday. It was awarded to Robert Edwards. That name may mean very little to some folks. He’s the pioneer of  the “test-tube” baby…better known now as in vitro fertilization. And while there are still people who think IVF is “playing God” somehow or that babies produced by IVF [...]

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9/11 Haiku of Remembrance

September 11, 2010

This is re-posted from September 11, 2009. I dread when my kids are old enough for us to explain the terror of that day. My heart aches for those kids who had the whole thing unfolding before them…whose families were ripped apart with that twisted steel. just morning routine until hate tried to defeat then [...]

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Tears at the Door

August 12, 2010

Split Pea, you’ve always seemed like the confident one. The self-assured, fearless, ready to take on the world, leader of the pack. You are the one I think will thrive the most in your own environment at school. The one who seemed to be taking the separation most in stride. Until this morning. I wasn’t [...]

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