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We were preparing for our daughter’s wedding when she called me one day in a slight panic, “Mom, I have no pictures of myself from 2009-2011! What happened?” “What happened” was, I was in the “desert years”- both literally and spiritually. We had moved away from everyone we knew to live in the desert of West Texas. Honestly, I tried not to think of those years as they were the years my dad was dying, the years I started having unexplained abdominal pain, the years our family

It was not by choice that my husband and I first turned down an unknown path into the creek on our ranch, exploring the swelling caused...

I was minding my own business yesterday when a near concussion from a frozen chicken put everything into perspective. I had my head in...

Today would have been our Shiloh’s 23rd birthday. Birthdays are hard. I always want the world to stop and remember. Maybe take a moment...

How did you survive the death of a child? It is a question my husband and I often get when people hear our story. It transports me back to that moment over 20 years ago when our sweet daughter left this world and entered eternity. I will never forget standing in the ICU at her bedside, feeling as if I was not really living this nightmare, that I had somehow stumbled into someone else’s reality. This couldn’t be. This shouldn’t be. In that moment, as the doctors and nurses who