Koda Bear (originally penned August, 2009)
Words could never accurately express the way I feel about my sons, so this will be brief. There is no pain like the pain of labor and delivery. Yet the great irony is that, despite that great pain,...
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We were fourteen years old, standing in the middle of a vast field, staring at a big boulder for our ninth-grade science classes. There we stood in our adolescent insecurity and awkwardness, when our...
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I stopped talking to you somewhere between the birth of your second grandson and a balmy August morning. My open-hearted acceptance of your absence morphed into a waterfall of anger, crashing over a...
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He ordered breakfast. But by the time the order was passed on to the chef, he had been swept away into another world, taken by a massive heart attack. The waters might be calm when, out of nowhere,...
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In July, 2009, I achieved the honor of winning a writing award promoted by a fabulous non-profit organization, 1H20. This is a snippet of that article: The never-ceasing, magnetic force of the river...
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