You may hear the people ahead of you in line at the visitation saying, "Sorry for your loss," and you know that the family members probably have heard that phrase hundreds of times that night. What else is there to say?Sympathy messagesare hard to articulate. Let us help. ...
In someone else’s life, there might be a time when as our lives cross paths, I might be their hammer or their anvil, and they might be the same in mine; but it would be wrong and is no small amount of arrogance for us to decide that that is to be our role in another’s life...
(a) Responds to a massively significant harm (to many children, and factually visible), which is inherent in the production of the material. It does extend beyond the production to distribution and even possession, but all of these acts contribute to the evil of production. (b) Is clearly...
This put my sim card in its place. I would be equally ineffective in her situation, if not more so. The shop owner and I exchanged thoughts of sympathy for the poor woman. The complete loss of a family at one time is hard to take in. Things are not always what they seem. You mig...
Well, that’s what they say. When the conspiracy theories sound far more credible than the actual story I’m tempted to go with the official story. Who on earth would make up a tale so bizarre? What it has brought into stark reality for me (like the world in the morning when I put...
I will be jumping ahead because from the time of that day when my real mother tried to get in the house and see me until my teens and grown-up years, most of it is a blur still. I remember when I was thirteen, my grandmother explaining to me how rotten my real mother was. I ha...
At seventeen, there was my Boyfriend’s Mom- soon to be, albeit briefly, Mother-In-Law. She was like an angel from heaven after I’d left home and landed at her home. The feelings of relief that washed over me as I sat in her living room that first night were overwhelming. She ma...
When they weren’t on the stage talking, they were in the audience listening to each other. Shaun Cassidy gave multiple hour-long talks, introduced films starring his mother, Shirley Jones (“Oklahoma” and “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”) and “Columbo” episodes starring his dad, ...
One of the first things I noticed was no one seemed to want to say the word, died. No one said, I’m sorry your dad died. Nearly everyone said, I’m sorry for your loss. Probably nine times out of ten, this is what people said. ...
I didn’t seek a share in the house or anything that went along with it. I was drafted for it by my friend, Tim. I had been living in Seattle after graduating from college and had come back to southeast Tennessee to help my parents after my mother became ill. The move was abrupt ...