By using nature, you can give children a healthy opportunity to understand death—by exploring life cycles and the changes that happen in living things, children will be better prepared when a family member or friend dies. Use the following natural phenomenon and opportunities: a dried fallen leaf, a wilted flower, and the death of an […]

We can be so absorbed in the past and the future that we don’t notice today is slipping by. Are you just going through your day to get through it…or are you getting something from your day? When was the last time you watched a sunset, or a sunrise? —Take time to enjoy the beauty […]

Women have strengths that amaze men. They bear hardships and they carry burdens, But they hold happiness, love and joy. They smile when they want to scream. They sing when they want to cry. They cry when they are happy And laugh when they are nervous. They fight for what they believe in. They stand […]

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.” 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.” 3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. “If you don’t straighten up, I’m […]

Marlene, thanks for passing this along: In a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am, regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to […]

There was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things ‘in order’, she contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted […]

Once upon a time there was a good old woman who lived in a little house. She had in her garden a bed of beautiful striped tulips. One night she was wakened by the sounds of sweet singing and of babies laughing. She looked out of the window and the sounds seemed to be coming […]

“Time marches on and one has no choice but to march with it.” Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress; lawn mower in his hand, and a dish-towel in hers. It was the time for fixing things: A curtain rod, the […]

The Complaint “The Sea was much better,” the traveler complained. “Whenever I got tired it at least had its currents to push me forward on my journey but you,” he looked at the vast desert surrounding him, “you are of no help.” He went down on his knees, dead tired. When his breaths restored back […]