by Carla | Oct 28, 2025 | General
Thinking of everyone on a sudden and unexpected grief journey in time for the holiday season… My brother was killed in a mining accident in 1983 at the age of 19. I came across this essay I’ve never shared, so I’m posting it on my sporadic blog. It’s not long, but it...
by Carla | Aug 23, 2021 | General
Those of us who have lost loved ones tragically and unexpectedly have something others often don’t. I’ll get to that in a minute… I’ve been to too many funerals, watched the young die, and have lived under the threat of a potentially deadly cancer of my own. I’ve...
by Carla | Jun 13, 2016 | General
It was early in the morning on November 1, 1966, and I was barely four years old. I played with my two-year-old brother on the living room floor while my mother dashed downstairs to move laundry from the washer to the dryer. I still hear the knock on the...
by Carla | Mar 8, 2016 | General
When I was a little girl, my mother told us once or twice about a curious tidbit of family history. I remember one conversation as we sat on our driveway in Morgantown, West Virginia, and played with a litter of 6-week-old kittens. “I have a sister out there...
