Advocacy, Bereaved Parents, bereavement, Child loss, Life, Poetry

When a Heart Breaks: The Ballad of Colorado, a Poem

to think on that day when a shooting occurred in Colorado that, it was in the same school district as Columbine?

Advocacy, Child loss, Grief, Life, Loss, Mental Health, Poetry

Trauma Dumping, a Poem

Today, I share a poem on a term about which I have written before. This time I read this poem, "Trauma Dumping," in Corrie's Butterfly Garden.

flowers, garden, garden photos, inspiration, Joy, Life, Literature, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Writing

The Writer’s Block Breaks

We’ll see the changing of the colors, dear, no matter when it is: the swan emerging from the river before summer’s end when one more calla lily portrays its plumes.

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, children, garden, garden photos, gardens, Grief, Life, Photography, Photos, Poetry

Four Years to the Day

write, share videos and pictures of Corrie, and excerpts from her poems; not to forever revisit or stay in the darkness, but we must remember my family and I had to--and sometimes still--travel through this heartbreak and hardship to reach some new light.

Art, Bereaved Parents, inspiration, marriage, Photos, Poetry

More than a Million Words: Ten Years Married to Corrie’s Father

Now, on the weekend of our ten-year-anniversary, we face a next phase in our journey. We will walk together in the new years as John battles stage 3 colon cancer with all the strength for which he's known. He will work through the chemo and radiation.

children, Family, inspiration, parenting, Poetry

Pages Written by Shakespeare

I remember when you sat by my side, and cut a plastic plate in half to make a mask with my students on the screen.

Family, inspiration, marriage, Poetry, Writing

A Poem: We’ll Still Ride Upside Down

Remember our discussions of rollercoasters ...

Family, Life, Poetry, Writing

Of Backpacks and Hymn Books

Gold, despite what some say, doesn't just come from mines.

children, inspiration, parenthood, Photography, Poetry

The Place of Corrie’s Dreams: with a poetry excerpt

Did you ever stop and hear about the house of which Corrie dreamed?

children, inspiration, Life, Politics, Writing

Three and Thirteen

By Rebecca T. Dickinson