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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

Heaven, Pope Francis, and Dinah Blue the Basset Hound

December 13, 2014 By Lorilee - 4 Comments

    Apparently Pope Francis's words about pets going to Heaven have been wildly twisted. What he really said was this: "The pope's talk to the crowd that day centered on the End Times and the transformation of all creation into a "new heaven" and a "new earth." Citing St. Paul … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Heaven Tagged With: cats, dogs, Heaven, Pets in Heaven, Pope Francis

10 Thoughts on “The Fault in Our Stars”

June 18, 2014 By Lorilee - 16 Comments

  1. The book is better than the movie. (As if anything else was possible.)   2. Hazel Grace and Augustus are stellar character names  John Green had me at Hazel and Augustus. (Okay, so I’m a name freak.) I honestly think these honest, real-as-flesh-and-blood characters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Heaven, Movies, Teenagers Tagged With: John Green, TFIOS, The Fault in Our Stars

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