When my mother turned sixty, she decided she didn’t need gifts anymore. She had everything she ever needed. If we pushed for suggestions for birthdays and holidays, her response was always, “Oh just some inexpensive earrings would be great. I don’t need a thing, really,” she’d profess. “Save your money!” For years I searched…
Holidays Aren’t Happy for Everyone
The song, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, still makes me cry. There are so many people I love, who are in Heaven, who won’t be coming home for Christmas. The advertisers make the holiday celebrations appear so jolly. People shopping, carrying bags of gifts all wrapped up, sometimes there’s even snow and the people are…
Grief Relief
When someone you love passes away, grief can become a heavy cloud that darkens every day. It zaps your energy and leaves one feeling desolate. The mind can’t fathom the fact that their loved one is gone. I am still only convinced ninety percent that my sister-in-law is no longer here. I can’t get to…
Painted Ladies, an Angel Bump by Terri Elders
At fifteen I’d not dealt with death before, so all I knew was that it meant goodbye. That didn’t strike me as fair. I didn’t want to say goodbye to Grandma. Nonetheless, Mama insisted I attend the funeral with the rest of the family on that gray June morning. “Dress in…
A Polka Pick-Me-Up by Elizabeth Wood
I remained mostly calm as I drove my mother to her first cancer treatment on a sweaty summer day in July. Only my fingers gave away my nervousness as I repeatedly scanned through radio stations, searching for a familiar tune— anything I could sing to—that had…
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