A New Day

Schrödinger's Dog by Martin Dumont, translation by John Cullen, ©2020, Other Press Loss is a difficult topic for people to read ab...

You Have Me to Love by Jaap Robben, Translated by David Doherty, © 2014, World Editions Grief is a familiar topic for me. So when I re...

The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles by Laura Fahrenthold, ©2018, Hatherleigh Press Earlier this summer I received a request to review a...

I began blogging in 2009. I have written the story of how I came to blogging before, but am still grateful to Gord for pointing the way t...

Rant. Go... My neighbour died last week. Another neighbour came over to break the news to me. She knew that I would want to hear, as I...

as the wind blows as my story goes people come and others flow through my pictures in my dreams just fleeting memories so it seems ...

Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night , by Barbara J. Taylor, © 2014, Akashic Books This debut novel from Barbara J Taylor opens in grief. Y...

"Embrace the past with Remembrance and the Future with Longing" Khalil Gibran RIP my dear 8.29.2007 Seems like only yes...

The email said to arrive at 6:45pm. This was so that we could be assigned seats and told when we would read. As unlikely as it sounds, I arr...

I rolled over and my arm fell on the cold spot in the bed. How long would it be before that wasn't a shock to the system anymore? No o...

The smell of flowers fills the air  A heady scent which none can compare.  In colours red, yellow and pink, a rainbow that I deign to dri...

throat aches as tears roll down to touch old wounds and scars that forever remain four years ago erased all new moments from the time...

Saturday's Email of the Week Someone sent me this clip, asking if I felt it was true. For those of you unfamiliar with Elisabeth Küb...

Dear Grandpa; You lead a full and satisfying life. To you, three daughters were born, and have since gone on to do you proud. They pre...

Saturday's Email of the Week Saturday has arrived again. I have to say that I am glad to see the week go. There wasn't anything...

Anger bubbles through my soul. caustic curses that have torn strips off Me and loved ones (my babies small) Aghast again ...

calico catnaps now rest comfortably on Canaan's shore Goodbye sweet friend your gentle ways will be missed the story has a h...

The last bite of chicken lies wet on the floor, growing colder as we throw barbed taunts, defiant challenges with our eyes. Seconds t...

heart filled  up with a thousand  sparks  of  disbelief over  the  loss  of  you... Alone  to  face tomorrow no direction  to claim as sa...

WRONG E-MAIL ADDRESS This one is priceless...A lesson to be learned from typing the wrong email address!!!! A Minneapolis couple decided...