Category: Family Blogs

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...

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...

In a few short days, it would have been Stephen’s 27th birthday. This will be the second birthday without our youngest son. In some ways it seems as if has been forever and a day since we said our goodbye to him as we looked upon his lifeless body...

My heart is indeed saddened and broken at the news from within our small community. The second of two teen high school boys in less than two weeks ended their brief lives. I can only reach out with my heart to the families and friends of these two young...

Tragedy struck yet again in our small community. Last week another fell victim to suicide in our small community. This marks the fourth since our own son Stephen took his own life. Its difficult for me to imagine that any person reading this post has not known and has...