It has been exactly a year since my father’s death…but it hardly feels that long ago…and yet, it feels like such a long time!

A contradiction, I know!

Life is different now.

With Dad’s passing is the realization that we cannot bring the old days back when we were all together (such wonderful remembrances of fun and crazy times at family reunions); I have such a yearning for those days of togetherness…but loving thoughts and memories will live with my family forever.

Dad’s memory is as dear today as in the hour he passed away (and oh how blessed it was to share that time with my sister!).

There is certainly the sadness of his absence…yet there is a gratitude for what was (the good AND the bad—for all of it made us who we are today).

A page in our family book of memories is silently turned today.

Life is…well, its simply different now!

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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