It was a nice, sunny Monday morning in Detroit and Thorpe was at the International Banquet & Conference Center where the 3-day conference was taking place. There were lots of familiar faces but he was surprised to see one of them. He had been talking to a couple of people when he spotted her. She …
You Never Know
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz “What’s all of this?” Tess asked Mrs. MacQuoid. “They are my husband’s.” “I’m so sorry for your loss.” Mrs. MacQuoid reached inside to remove first the package and then the box. "These are all I want.” “What about the rest of the contents? “I don’t need them.” “What are they?” …
The Breakfast
"Oh, Dear," Margaret exclaimed soon after she sat down at the table. "What's the matter?" Charles asked. "I forgot that I had asked for this bowl of cereal. I don't feel like having it anymore. I would much rather have these two slices of toast with the Apricot jam. Maybe I should just have Agnes …
It’s Not the Same
When you're comforting someone, do you say, "I know how you feel"? I recently realized that a person really doesn't know how another person feels when my sister told me of the sad story of a mother whose two sons were among the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which crashed and burned in …
Losing and Finding Love
I was cleaning out my desk when I came across a picture of Susanna. I stared it for a moment. She was easily the most beautiful woman I had ever known. When we met ten years ago in Aspen, it was love at first sight for me. Her beautiful, angelic face was framed by long, …
The Aftermath
It's a Saturday afternoon and I'm sitting in my apartment, feeling awful--really down because Bobby's mother got very upset with me. She wanted nothing more to do with me because I had told her that her son who was like a little brother to me wouldn't go to Heaven because he had committed suicide. The …
Adopted
How do people feel when they find out that they have been adopted? I once watched an episode of the soap opera, One Life to Live where a character named Destiny was devastated when she learned that her parents were actually her grandparents and that the brother she was so close to, whom she adored …
In Every Season…Praise Him
It was on a Wednesday evening when *Dora was listening to Christian music on YouTube. The artist was someone she had never heard of before until her aunt sent her an email about him. The songs were very uplifting but the one which really got to her was the one called, Holy, Holy, Holy. It …
Cause of Death
He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces - Isaiah 25:8 Less than a month after our son died, we found out that the cause of death was a "sudden acute severe Asthma attack." The attack was so sudden that nothing could have prevented …
Keeping Up Appearances
They had been together for twenty years. The first ten had been relatively happy but after the loss of their child, their marriage started to crumble. They went for counseling and things improved but only for a while. They tried unsuccessfully to have other children. They thought of adopting but decided not to. The wait …
Notes to Women 