SPRING FORWARD: COMFORT of a Warmer Kind….
It’s nearly time again to set our time pieces (clocks, watches, etc.) forward again as Daylight Savings time kicks in for the upcoming summer. Winter, thankfully, is quickly taking its frigid and frosty retreat from our part of the world as the promise of spring brings with it warmer...
THE AFTERMATH: A Mother’s Passage Through Grief
It’s Wednesday, October 16, and I am standing outside in a lonely spot. I guess it normally would be called a forlorn, windswept location except that it is sunny, in the upper 40’s, and there is barely any wind blowing, just an occasional puff of wind arising out...
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY… From the heart of a mother
(It is still very difficult to go back to that place in time and to relive the unfathomable agony and sorrow of this past year.) My youngest son, James Stephen Cooper, took his own life leaving a huge void in our family’s fabric. The day started out fairly normal...