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Daughters, if there was one thing I could be I would be a lantern lighting the way of your life’s path Shining the way to make life easier and without…

As a small child, my grammie at close to her fifties did not hesitate to take in her oldest sons children one daughter and two sons. she was a true…

GROWING UP I was five years old when Grandpa Williams picked up my mother, my two brothers and myself at the Greyhound station.  tired hungry and of course cranky I’m…

Should I but return to my birth, would life had I to start over? I would have  parents that did not infuse my life with “abandonment issues” that I still…

Each day our grief is like the ebb and flow an ocean rushing at us one minute and easing back another each grain of sand a tiny piece of our…

After I've taken my last breath Share the memories of me with your children and grandchildren Pass the love along that you felt with me even when we loved in…

When you’re five lying in bed waiting for the wood floors to creak you lie so still so he'll think you're asleep When you're ten you think here he comes…

All by myself looking out on the square from my window up above wine glass in hand empty again I drink too much I say out loud I am tired…

Lady Antebellum sings this song “DANCING AWAY WITH MY HEART” which has inspired me to pen a few lines in tribute to my father as it is close to his…

Men, women, children, pregnant women, 24 at last count. Their blood splattered across church pews puddling on the floor as they stare with open eyes at nothing and no one.…