In our ongoing quest to learn to live with the long-term impact of losing a child to suicide, both my wife and I have found our own outlets to chart our paths forward. Sometimes we move together, and sometimes individually. Both are important as we search for ways to make peace with the reality of…
Tag: kindness
Desperado: You’ve Got to Let Somebody Love You
“You’ve got to let somebody love you, before it’s too late.” If you close your eyes, I bet you can hear that famous lyric from the Eagles tune playing in your head. For all my daughter did to embrace that line, too late came too soon. Today should be Rivena’s 27th birthday. She died by…
An Unwelcome Anniversary
One year. It seems like such a long time. And it feels like yesterday. 365 days, and the blink of an eye. We lost Rivena on this day one year ago. And I remain at a loss for words as to why our oldest child took her own life on January 28, 2018.
(Not) Turning 26 Today
Sometimes love just isn’t enough. Those were the only words I could manage to write the day after Rivena died. In the numbness of a long flight back home, I pulled out a pen and the new journal that my kids had given me for Christmas a few weeks earlier, and those 5 words were…
An Unlikely Advocate
An unlikely advocate. That’s what I have become. But I am first and foremost a parent of two amazing young women, ages 25 and 20, and like any parent, I want nothing else in the world above the happiness and health of my kids. What follows here is a story about our family’s relationship with the oldest of our two daughters.