We had a furry friend join our family yesterday.  Jessie has upgraded from her plastic pup to a bonafide, adorable, sweet, little pooch.  Though a birthday gift for me, our intent is for this precious, approximately 7 month old male Maltipoo mutt to grow to be Jessie’s buddy.  He was rescued by a girl named

Thursdays are still my day to visit Judson’s gravesite when I have the opportunity.  As I laid out my blue blanket on the grass near his grave-marker today and looked around at all the other names of people buried nearby, I started to calculate their ages – 80, 84, 76, 83, 40, 62, 66 …

Dear Judson… Your dad and I have now been to the other side of the nation and the other side of the world in honor of you, but the journey where I find you running back into my embrace remains forefront to all my longings.  It was strange to be traveling because of you, traveling

  Posing for photos with Jim & Jill Kelly Dear family and friends… We have certainly felt like jet-setters the last couple weeks with our travels to England and now just returning from Rochester, New York.  In fact, we had three different lay-overs in the Newark airport within one week, making it feel like a

Comedian Jason Manford Dear family and friends… We have arrived home from England and had an absolutely fabulous (or “lovely” as the English might say) time. Here is a slideshow with some of the highlights from our trip: On Friday night thousands of dollars were raised for www.savebabiesuk.org.  It was an honor and gift to

My grief is at a stage now where it is very uncommon for me to cry in a public setting over my loss of Judson.  Most of my weeping is done in private.  However, yesterday I was so overcome with emotion that I burst into tears outside the ruins of the Whitby Abbey.  I couldn’t

Life is strange.  We care so much about this temporary existence and yet it will all pass so quickly. Yesterday as Drake and I walked through a graveyard in Whitby, England, I mourned not only for Judson but for others.  We passed from headstone to headstone near St. Mary’s Church and I noted that many

We were asked many times before we left on this vacation to England for 10 days if it would be hard to be away from Jessie for so long. Of course I miss my Ladybug!  But part of my everyday life includes missing one of my children terribly.  I experience the gnawing ache of separation