Shining Moments

As I checked in at the hotel that day my thoughts were centered on all the fun my girls and I would have. Swimming, movies, delicious breakfast, and on and on. Never would I have dreamed that it would end in disappointment with us going back home again that very day....

Shining Moments

I thought my world had come to an end.    There I was hours away from home       and my mommy and daddy and two brothers. Suddenly sent away to stay with my aunt when my mother came down with polio. Not knowing that I’d ever see my family again. Not understanding....

Shining Moments

Her eyes met mine and I read her deep pain           and loss              and confusion. So what do you do when suddenly your mate of many years    dies    leaving you all alone? How do you begin again? she wondered. How do you fill the empty moments..     those...

Mourning’s Not Forever

Nothing could have surprised me more than to discover that Elsie, Jenny’s pet hamster, had died. A few hours before she had been playing with her ball and apparently fine. But then we found her lifeless at the bottom of her cage. Now when you are 12 and this is your...