An ethnic grocery store in Denver, CO with its name printed over its façade in three different languages compels me to stop and shop each time I drive Continue Reading
Gold Star Mother
The Reality of Mother’s Day: A Time to Weep and Mourn, Laugh and Dance
My sweetest and most painful Mother’s Day was our family’s first Mother’s Day as a single-parent family. As a newly single mom, Mother’s Day was Continue Reading
Motherhood and Brotherhood: A Simple Heartfelt Thank You
As a Gold Star mom, I often wonder whether my mind will ever stop trying its best to reject the “ultimate bereavement.” Words spoken to me by soldiers Continue Reading
Remembering 9/11: Hope After the Wasteland
“I don’t want to go there.” We’ve all said those exact words. A painful memory we don’t want to dredge up. A journey we’re dreading. A place or Continue Reading
Lessons from a Grieving Mother Whale
by Jenny Albers Losing a child is a club you never want to join. Whether you lose a child in war, in the womb or, late in life, the loss of a child Continue Reading
Gold-Star Mom Jumps from Plane… with Team of Veterans into Normandy to Commemorate D-Day, Her Late Son’s Memory
This article was first published in August of 2019 and is republished with permission by Kate Ketschek [Seattle, WA, May 2, 2019]—An elite team of Continue Reading
The State of Our Union: Politics Trumps Respect, Honor, and Sacrifice
The State of Our Union: Politics Trumps Respect, Honor, and Sacrifice by Scoti Domeij After Trump’s State of Continue Reading
A Gold Star Mother’s Reflection for Mothers Day
By Silvia Buoniconti What a difficult day. We feel so different from those around us, all those happy people with children the same age our child Continue Reading
NBC’s (Not Bloody Credible) Chopper Whopper
And now today’s vocabulary words for the day, per the English Oxford dictionary and compliments of Lyin’ Brian: Conflate, kənˈflāt, Continue Reading