My posting cycle seems to miss all of the holidays this year, so my thoughts are running a week behind. This is not intentional I assure you. Another Memorial Day has come and gone. My heart is heavy thinking about the loss all nations have suffered as their daughters and sons have gone out to…
Tag: Family
Building Bridges
Depending on how much halfway house time I am given I am between ten (eight months half way house) and eighteen months (zero half way house) from leaving here and arriving somewhere where I will begin my reintegration into society. With this comes many emotions: joy, curiosity, hope, depression, and a dozen more. The one…
A New Chapter
The new year is upon us! Twenty Nineteen will be here in just a couple of days. Have you made your new year’s resolutions yet? Will you keep them? I don’t know if I believe in resolutions around the new year. Maybe because I’ve never kept any I’ve made, and when I think about it,…
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. It’s that time of year again isn’t it? Gifts and wrapping paper and bows. Parties and family get togethers and intimate lunches. Traveling and shopping and UPS. Maybe snow or rain or sunshine and 70 degrees. What a time to be alive and to celebrate….
Forgiveness
During my wife’s last visit, we talked about forgiveness. We didn’t get into all the differences between my view of forgiveness and her view but I was left with a new perspective; one that I hadn’t ever considered before. The outcome for me is not being sure if I can forgive myself for what I’ve…
To My Love
Valentine’s Day. A day to celebrate the one we love. I’ve sent out my cards. Yes, I said cardS. Why more than one? I have four significant women in my life – mother, sister, daughter and wife. Each is important to me in unique ways but it’s my wife I want to write about now….
Make Room
As I cast about looking for the words to this Christmas post I found myself at a loss for what to say. I mean, everything I wrote down had been said before, and often by more insightful and wiser persons than I. Instead I decided to write about how I wanted Christmas to be different…
Time for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time when we recognize the blessings and graces in our lives. I’d like to thank God for His love and His graces in my life of which there are many. I’d like to thank my wife, without her love and support I’d have a very dark and lonely existence. I’d like to…
Do It Yourself
Funny, how so many of us become attached to objects because of the memories associated with them. How many of us have concert or movie ticket stubs from a first date or first time attending such an event? I know I do. My father passed away earlier this year (see “Dad (Warning, He Cusses)”). Between…
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