If Cassie Could Sing
Our Yarn: Knitting, Pt. 2
After learning everything I needed to know about knitting to make my wife’s dream come true, I realized why Cassie never did.
Words Like Trees
The Sugar
Living with type 1 diabetes can be tough. But the people who do will always be tougher. Type 1 is a condition demanding constant attention—something that is almost impossible… Almost.
If Cassie Could Sing
Hot Rod
One of the hardest parts of loss is seeing things finish without the person you started them with. But that shouldn’t mean despair for us. The fact that godly plans do eventually pan out should only give us hope moving forward. A certain friend’s wedding reminded me how.
If Cassie Could Sing
How a Grinch Stole New Years
Cass and I talked about moving a lot… maybe as a kind of coping mechanism when life got stressful for her. But as eager as I was to be moved out and for everything to be changed, I didn’t really want to do the moving or the changing. So when the time finally came, I found another couple coping mechanisms: one was pretty terrible, the other pretty fantastic.
If Cassie Could Sing
Where Can I Go? Where Can I Flee? Pt. 1
She wanted to climb to the top of the pyramids and to see things leftover from a world forgotten. Egypt was just a little too far for her. She told me a number of times she would settle for the pyramids in Mexico. So, I knew exactly what I wanted to do in while in the Yucatan! While I wandered about the monuments the Maya left behind, I couldn’t help but wonder about the monuments my wife left behind.
If Cassie Could Sing
Sun Above, Light Below
At her memorial, I told everyone that “Sunflowers were Cassie’s favorite flowers.” But there was a period where she hated them… no thanks to me. I took a trip out to see a field of them anyways. They say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But maybe they should say it’s in the heart of the beholder…
If Cassie Could Sing
Wild and Wonderful, Pt. 2
Cassie’s relatives provide countless reminders of her, with all the little quirks they shared. But there is one person in particular who has an absurd amount of the same attributes Cassie had. She, like so many others, have helped me to rebuild something broken—an identity.
If Cassie Could Sing
#GloverNotAFighter
If there was one thing Cassie hated, it was weddings. She used to love them until she had to have one for herself. The running joke leading up to our wedding (and for a long time afterwards) was that we had a wedding because I wanted it, not because Cassie Read more…