Category: Loss

  • Summer at the Jersey Shore

    In my hometown of the “Wildwoods,” Memorial Day Weekend KICKS down the door to summer in a single thrust. The population of this barrier island off the southern coast of New Jersey swells from 5,600 to 250,000 in a single weekend as summer homeowners and weekend vacationers literally POUR onto the shore over three waterway…

  • Mothers Day Pain

    Last night I sat in a circle beside a friend who said that she had no hope   And as her body shook with anguish, I encircled her in my arms protecting her heart so that she would not be alone in that world where she must return home to babies who cry for their…