by Dianne | Mar 3, 2014
Other than the reality of grief, there’s another reality I’ve been living with for nearly two years now: a vision is more easily perfected in your mind than it is implemented. I’ve mentioned before that wonderful friends purchased several web domains shortly after...
by Dianne | Dec 28, 2013
Avoidance. Escape. Distraction. These have been our coping strategies for managing the Christmas season since losing Tyler. Ron and I have wondered if perhaps it would have been a blessing in disguise to have had other children still living at home to force us to...
by Dianne | Oct 18, 2013
Today I am overwhelmed with gratitude. October 18th will never be just another date on the calendar for me; it will always mark Tyler’s grand entrance into our world. And on this day, 17 years later, I cannot celebrate with Tyler in the flesh, but I can...
by Dianne | Sep 29, 2013
Sweet Boy, September 29th. One and a half years. Eighteen months. Seventy-eight weeks. I know you well and know that you would tell me to stop being sad. I can no more stop the sadness than I can stop breathing. Do you know what I hate the most about grieving, Tyler?...
by Dianne | Jun 19, 2013
Back in November, I posted that I’d accepted an invitation to participate as a team member on Tyler’s school’s Costa Rica missions trip – the same trip Tyler went on four months before his diagnosis of leukemia. Tyler had planned to return the following year, but...
