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My dad has always and will always be my first best friend. He was the person who helped me discover my love for board games, cards, and puzzles. He also introduced me to the greatest movie of all time, The Goonies. All these memories I have of my dad are from having almost 7 years…
I still vividly remember the day I learned my dad died, sitting in my Nana’s front garden underneath her big tree that we always climbed as kids. A place which, before June 14th, 2007, was filled with so many good memories. For a while, walking into her front door brought back those terrible feelings, unending…
In so many words, I always knew that death would touch my life as family and loved ones aged—it was the cycle of life. While I had experienced the difficult passing of all four of my grandparents in my 31 years and the sadness of losing my Uncle to cancer in high school, I was…
It was a typical Saturday morning at our house. My brother Matthew had a basketball tournament, and my mom was getting things ready for us to leave. Then, I heard the fire whistle and my dad’s pager went off. In a hurry to leave, my mom asked me to grab his pager, and I handed…
I was always told that grief follows you for your whole life and has a weird way of morphing into other feelings and outlets. I was also, unfortunately, a teenager once, and I thought I knew it all and had total control of my feelings. I was convinced I was done grieving the death of…
I dropped the box that had my mom’s obituary in it. After five days evacuated from my home, I had finally gotten around to unpacking my car and with the last box in my arms, I managed to trip on the sidewalk and pour the contents out onto the pavement. I heard the picture we…
