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I Am a Real Dad: Thoughts About and Photos of Adoptive Dads and Their Children

June 16, 2017 By Lorilee - 8 Comments

It was 2004 when my husband, Doyle, had a dream he will never forget. In the dream he saw a tiny little girl, about two, with hair the color of a blackbird's wing and eyes the shape of watermelon seeds. She was sitting on the back of a tractor trailer, in a red shirt, waving at him and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Anne of Green Gables, Grief, Heaven, This is Us Tagged With: Adoption, Adoptive dads, Anne of Green Gables, biracial adoption, Father's Day, This is Us

Vivian, Nathan, and Heaven’s Surreal Swamps

December 7, 2015 By Lorilee - 2 Comments

I can't stop thinking about Vivian, and I can't stop thinking about Heaven. I can't stop thinking about this girl, her dark poetry, her nuanced eye for composition and photography, and the fact that, as a little girl, she was the most adventurous eater on Planet Earth. I even wrote about her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grief, Heaven Tagged With: grief, Heaven, My Journey to Heaven, teen suicide

For One More Father’s Day: The Gifts We’d Give

June 18, 2015 By Lorilee - 9 Comments

Happy Father's Day, Dad! People keep saying you're in a better place, and I believe them. But that still doesn't mean we don't wish things were different. It doesn't mean we don't think it absolutely sucks to lose a dad and an Opa to lung cancer, you who never smoked in your life, except … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grief, Heaven, Uncategorized Tagged With: Father's Day, grief, Heaven

The Movie Star, the Medical Student, the Pastor, and My Mum

August 13, 2014 By Lorilee - 7 Comments

  The loss of Robin Williams has laid me low. I feel like I’m grieving someone I knew, someone who meant something to me, and now he’s gone. It’s so final. There’s no lifting a giant remote and pressing “rewind” to go back in time and save that lovely, lovely man. My husband says that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: depression, grief, Robin Williams

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