Ride the Ride Archives : Winter Warrior

KEEP FORWARD GOING

The first time I ever had a Marine in uniform show up at my door, […]

As I struggled in my puddle on the shower floor, my Boi’s gentle, calm voice cut through the pain, “Get up momma. You don’t belong down there!”

Lucid dreams by night often become blurry by dawn, and the light of a new […]

At first, loss can feel like you are living in an absolute nightmare, except you […]

(Note: This post was written before the massive shut-downs and stay-at-home orders that have taken […]

At what point do we progress from merely “riding the ride” to actually enjoying it? […]

In grief, we unwittingly tend to tip-toe around certain subjects, events, memories, people, places, and […]

Grief is often compared to ocean waves—for me, it is often experienced through the lenses […]

It has been said that no man can step into the same river twice… “for […]

Trauma can be an opportunity to start anew. When we have all that was ever […]

Uninvited Guest is a small piece I composed several months after Josie’s passing. It took […]

In the first days, it was my innate instinct to cling to all that was […]