I continue to be amazed at the way that online & virtual community truly is community. I still receive heartfelt notes, comments, emails and Facebook messages from people I don’t know who keep expressing their love and care and concern for us. On my first Father’s Day this past Sunday, I received a note from […]
6 Months and a Box of Memories
It’s late but I wanted to write a post today. Today makes 6 months since that horrible day in the hospital. It’s hard to believe, really. Every now and then, I’ll just sit back and try and run through that day’s events in my mind, and they are really all a blur. I remember being […]
Sharing in the Grief of Others
As I’ve mentioned on this blog before, my desire to write about grief and my own personal journey was really a selfish desire. I didn’t start writing thinking that my story, my experiences or my anger would be helpful to anyone else – it was simply something I needed to do. However, my writings on […]
Thank You.
Not much to say. Just a note of thanks for all of you who have sent us emails and notes this weekend and today. Today, March 20th, was our singleton due date. It means a lot that you are still with us, on this journey that we didn’t choose. Thank you for your thoughts, your […]
Joy Amidst Sadness
The past month has been an interesting time for us. As many of you probably know, our official singleton due date was March 20, but we never really felt like that was our real due date. We never really knew when Micah and Judah would be born, but we were told to be ready by […]
A Daily Reminder
Everyone has their routines in the morning. Mine usually consists of: wake up, grab iPhone and check email, Twitter, Facebook and blogs (in that order), shower, get dressed…etc. And right in the middle of all that, when I’m debating which t-shirt to throw on, I see them. Our two infant urns. Micah and Judah. A […]
Things Have Been a Little Quiet Around Here
So, things have been a little quiet around here on DazedDad.com. It’s funny what emotions can do and how they can make you feel. Part of me feels like I just needed some time away from writing about grief, death and our loss. But another part of me feels guilty that I haven’t been writing […]
A New Year
The above photo was taken between Gooding and Shoshone, Idaho on Highway 26. It’s one of my favorite photos I’ve taken and has come to be the symbol and image I think of when I think of “journey.” And so it is on my mind today as 2010 ends and a new year begins tomorrow. […]
I Would Trade it All…
There have been some moments in the past few weeks when I’ve thought about what possible good thing may have come out of our story. While I met with my spiritual director last month, he asked me a similar question, “What gifts did your boys give you?” And while we were meeting with a new […]
Infant Urns & StoryPeople Prints
Once we had Micah and Judah’s ashes, we then had to figure out what we were going to do with them. We’re not really in a place that is meaningful enough to us at this point in our lives that we’d want to spread their ashes around here, and so we decided to just get […]