Tunnels in Time After Child Loss

          

       The loss of a child is a strange thing. It can be a bit like moving into a time tunnel. One one side of the tunnel, the world is stopped in the place where you lost your child. In my time tunnel, this side is missing Daniel and he would be 12 1/2, and my other children would be the age they were when he died. In some ways, this is the last place I was before the Earth underwent terrible, sad and dark changes.  On the other side of the time tunnel, life has moved on and many changes have taken place. I have a grandchild who is four now. Some of my children are married, and some have their own homes and businesses. They are through colleges now. The other side of the time tunnel, known to most of you as the present has some other odd features. Daniel, is of course, not here, but if he were, he would be 23 years old now.  It's strange to try to imagine what a Daniel of 23 might look like, what he might be doing and where he went to college. It can be bewildering when you add his friends. Recently, one of his friends got married and they are a lovely young couple, and not at all too young to enter such a daunting commitment. It is hard to reconcile that even one of Daniel's friends has married.

          Other than that, I am still working, still writing, and still caring for one remaining dog that Daniel knew, named Sally, whose days are likely numbered now, due to advanced age. We have other dogs on the farm, but they were acquired after his departure. There is one alpaca remaining that he knew, and chickens who are the grandchildren of the rooster be bought the day before his passing.

             May your own tunnels in time be happy and secure places, on either end.

"Westward: The Novel is Released !

Westward:The Novel is a 6x9 inch book or available electronically, and is 322 pages long.

                      Since Daniel's passing, I have not returned to do any of the jobs I had before. Instead, I needed to be home with his siblings, his animals and on the land he new almost all of his life.  In that time, I have written books.  First, I wrote the one that told of Daniel's life and of his passing, called What I Learned from Daniel,  which is atop the page. Next there was the Rational Preparedness: A Primer to Preparedness book.  Then, there was a first novel, Portsoy Woods, which is my first novel and tells of a family during a US financial collapse who live in the country.  Lawrence DeWolfe Kelsey:The Life of the Explorer  is the true story of an American patriot and explorer, who also happens to be Daniel's grandfather.

                       Westward: The Novel is the story of a young woman with four children who loses her husband suddenly, just after he makes the final transitions from being a police officer to an attorney. She is left not only navigating life with four young children without her husband, but she is also left needing to return to work in order to support herself and her family. This is the inspiring story of how she does that while continuing to parent. Ultimately, she must also navigate finding the second great love of her life, and how she and her children adapt to his becoming a new part of their family.

                      Of course, Amazon has Westward, but my publisher seems to have the paper bound book and the electronic versions available less expensively at this link:

               https://booklocker.com/books/9981.html

 

                 Thanks so much for continuing to read from this collection.

   Best wishes to everyone.