The wreath and her princess balloon for the first day of school were in the car ready to go Sunday night. I drove like a NASCAR driver to the cemetery. It's amazing I wasn't pulled.
Month: August 2020
I Walk in the Tides
Wednesday was the first day I'd felt happy, since May 26, 2020. While I'd experienced moments of contentment, bittersweet joy, or laughed; I'd been divorced from happiness for a while. As Hayes and I went to school, Danger Zone came on the radio.
Three and Thirteen
By Rebecca T. Dickinson
The Switch, Bear Claw and a Fruit Cup
After all, life is not always filled with moments of fruit cups and bear claw tears.
Corrie’s Last Walk
I've experienced more life in 35 years than maybe some people want to feel. On Monday, pictures will pop up on social media of children on the first day of school in an unprecedented school year. And they should. Life keeps going in that way. I will share a picture of Corrie I have never… Continue reading Corrie’s Last Walk
Kindergarten was Nothing But Sparkles on Skin
You know, I never got Kindergarten just right. Part time with a pediatric specialist who wrote that I showed echolalic speech and drew grotesque figures for a child my age. In rooms where they asked me questions, in great white rooms where I was an it, a hamster, rather than a child at play. The… Continue reading Kindergarten was Nothing But Sparkles on Skin
What I Found Out
We want to know, but we don’t want to know.
Corrie’s Always there to Remind me
I crave to make her memory matter as time changes and continues. Because she stole the spotlight in my heart. Because she proved a unicorn does exist in heaven.
Built John Tough (with Poetry Excerpt from “The Sea Cow and the Manatee”)
When people take vows for marriage, we nailed the "in sickness," we earned the badge with "or poorer," and death--while the vow is meant for the couple--will not divide us now.
How Hayes Communicates his Grief over Corrie
Disney's Rapunzel series is the same, only every connection is to his sister and how he understands the world.
Corrie's Season 