Tag: funeral
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‘A question of honor’: a healing piece of writing for Colleen
We know that the storytelling we do is effective and will stand the test of time when we feel good as we finish a chapter. In fact, it can be downright cathartic. That’s how my longtime friend Colleen Amos felt when she finished the following story. The heat we’re experiencing now in the Midwest was of…
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Too many goodbyes
We buried my sweet Aunt Neva on Tuesday. She was 80 and had spent the last nine years battling Alzheimer’s. And today we said goodbye to my cousin Linda Rose. She was only 68 and had lost her fierce battle to peritoneal cancer. That’s too many funerals, too many good-byes for one week. But every…
