She was four years, ten months, and seventeen days when she died. Yesterday, it was four years, ten months, and seventeen days since she died. Today, she is dead longer than she was alive.
Continue readingTag Archives: suicide
A broken heart
Literally.
Continue readingA mother’s love. And worry.
Dear one, if you only knew and believed how much I love you
I tried last week, I really did, but just couldn’t
I tried to write last week, I really did, but I just couldn’t. I started a letter to Maribella for her upcoming birthday, and every time I wrote a line, a tear escaped, each tracing a new pattern down my face, a torrent threatening behind. All while I was numb. Continue reading
New House
I want to start out to say that I am and have been grateful that I was able to find and buy another home after Jesse and Bella died. I can’t imagine the amount of messed up I would be having to stay in the house where it happened. I can barely drive by it and only have three times over the past three plus years. Continue reading
Grateful…for a cruise!?
A cruise you may ask? Well, it is not exactly the cruise itself, but the people who were on it… Continue reading
My thoughts as a loss survivor to Chester Bennington’s death
My mind has been going non-stop since last week when I heard of Chester Bennington’s death. I watched and read as my suicide prevention community lit up Facebook with heartbreak and further resolve. Continue reading
Broken
Sometimes when I stop to think about it, I feel like a badass. And sometimes, like the past few days, I feel broken. Continue reading
Trust after tragedy
This is a tough and vulnerable one for me to talk about. Trust is a big one for a lot of people, and my “baggage” goes back pretty far, again, like so many others, but the tragedy compounded things a million fold. Continue reading
“That’s gonna be uhhh you know uhhh fascinating transition”
I just started watching Season 3 of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt recently. I don’t know if it is that I have a different perspective now or what, but it has gotten me to thinking about things. Continue reading