Some loves experience more pies in the face than ballets and dreams sold to strangers on a holiday channel.
Category: Art
The Three Cs in Growth through Grief
Friends on social media share the happy pictures of their children all of the time. Now, I can either drink two bottles of wine and feel the full weight of envy, or I can celebrate the life of my daughter by making somber places beautiful. I can make them look like the joy and happiness Corrie brought to my life.
Art at Corrie’s: Foxes, Racons, Flowers and Martha’s Stained Glass
I also added a turkey, fox and new floral arrangement with the roses for Martha and Corrie.
Corrie’ Season Presents the Rose Art Work, “Naomi’s Liberty Bell”
For the first time on Corrie’s Season, I share “art” as the highlight instead of writing.
When We Say Artist
When we say artist, I think it is someone who attempts to make sense of the world when logic fails, and creation is all that’s left.
Roses for Corrie in Online Art Exhibition
Corrie would be proud. The kind of proud when you see the smile on your child's face when he or she dances. When I started writing about Corrie and of my Kinder Memorial Walk in her cemetery, my main concern was: How can I honor Corrie in a way she will be remembered? Art has… Continue reading Roses for Corrie in Online Art Exhibition
Flipping the Nightmare: A Halloween in Reverse
“Mommy, sing me a song, and not about a raven or a nevermore. Sing about where we fly and about my new wings.”
Symphonies for Little Girls
"I was alone listening to Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the other side of the school, and I thought, I will write Corrie a symphony of words."
She Graduated to Heaven
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.
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 Season 