You learn a lot about how to navigate the ups and downs of life by watching your parents. I know I did.
The people in charge of raising us, for better or worse, are the people who have the first opportunity at influencing us. Even when we begin to think we have life figured out for ourselves, we may still think back to something that one of our parents did or said and think to ourselves, “I wonder how they did that?” “I wonder how they knew that?” Or perhaps your parents weren’t so wonderful and you might be thinking, … Read More
I wonder what our lives would be like today if he were still alive?
This question keeps rolling over in my mind as I stand in a stationary store, browsing through the Father’s Day cards, trying to find a card to give my wonderful 87-year-old Dad but also thinking of the emptiness of the day for my son whose father died when he was thirteen years old.
Of course there is no way to know what life would be like if my husband, my son’s father, was still alive and with us, but that doesn’t stop my meandering mind from… 
