Category: Grief/Loss
In Someone Else’s House Slippers
I am curious who is experiencing increased anxiety and why. My anxiety my concussion was due to the fact that I was still living in employee housing, directly on the mountain where my job was, surroun... Read More
Fill the Kirkwood Valley with Love
A week from today, it will be one year since a particular wonderful man left this earth. His passing has touched the lives of thousands, reflected in the countless people showing love and support for ... Read More
Real love. That’s it.
Four years and one day ago I met Cory Iverson. I remember the moment I first saw him, standing at the top of a set of stairs, right outside the apartment he, and my best friend, had been living togeth... Read More
Glowing with the most proud smile
I was about a year and a half, maybe two years old. We had just moved into the home that I “grew up in” (from this age until age 11 or 12). Our two bedroom house had a large front yard with a big ... Read More
Jagged peaks drawing me in
Winding through the roads of Wyoming, my first few hours ever experiencing this state, I begin to feel the signs of withdrawal. Itching for a fix, every bend that my 1998 green 4WD Toyota Tacoma... Read More
The moment that you cannot capture in a photo
We rolled into the parking lot, obeying the 15 mile per hour limit, and my excitement begins to increase seeing the scattered people looking up on the ridge, with binoculars and spotting scopes in han... Read More
Gaze over the edge and grab a rope
Picture in your mind, someone you have interacted with, who has been struck by grief. Imagine anyone you have crossed paths with suffering from the gut wrenching, agonizing, and heartbreaking, l... Read More