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December 2018

December 02, 2018

First Day of Advent: Suffering Sucks

Fluffy Christianity gives me the creeps. I sometimes wonder how people can just pretend that...

June 2018

June 08, 2018

Random Thoughts On Suicide

First, if you are suffering from depression or suicidal thoughts, seek help. Go to a...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

The definition of Exhortation is "communication encouraging someone to do something." Keep this in mind as...

March 2018

March 28, 2018

When Your Prayer is Answered with Grief

This morning I woke up to the news that a little boy who has been...

March 27, 2018

When You are Grieving During Holy Week

Earlier this week I considered writing up something about how to grieve during Holy...

March 16, 2018

Grace, Grief, Death and Joy

Right now, I am sitting at the 1-year mark of the day between my birthday...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

March 8th is Quickly Approaching: Request and A Book Review

As many of you who are regular readers of mine know, March 8th will be...

February 15, 2018

EASTER GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!

A few weeks ago I was thinking about how I was going to keep...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

I am twelve days away from going through hell. It will be one year since...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Death Be Not Proud

On Wednesday March 8th at 1:51 my oldest son called me to ask if he...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Mourning is something that is avoided at every cost. Part of it is our brain...

November 02, 2017

All Souls Day as a Grieving Mother: Year 1

When I walked around the cemetery in Rome and came across this headstone I thought...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

Faith After Tragedy

I have had a lot of people tell me that my faith in the aftermath...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Interview With Shaun Morgan From Seether About Suicide

I met Shaun Morgan, the lead singer of Seether, in 2005 at Hooters in Amarillo,...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

My best friend Candie Flores and my husband do not read books. They just don't....

July 11, 2017

Book Review- Healing Promises: The Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart

The first Mass when I realized there was something special about Communion was at my...

July 07, 2017

A Note From Way Back Here

I was just a child myself waiting on my baby to be born. I had...

April 2017

April 19, 2017

The Tomb of Grief

Last week I wrote about what happened the day that my son Anthony died by...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Here's the thing that a lot of people do not get about losing people you...

August 2016

August 09, 2016

One of the Stages of Grief: Anger

I am over at Aleteia talking about grief and how I used to try and...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Waiting for Redemption

Grief is such a bitch. That’s the only way that I can describe it. In...

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