(Day 9 of the 10-Day "You" Project) "The Call" by Regina Spector "I Will Carry You" by Selah Continue Reading »
March for Babies Pendant Giveaway
Update: We have our winners! Congratulations to Melissa C. for being the first person to donate and to Anrey B. for winning the random drawing. Please send me a message via the Dandiewinks Continue Reading »
Capture Your Grief – Day 14: Light and Dark
The white "One Who Soars" and black "In Mourning" wristbands are from the MISS Foundation. The March of Dimes wristband (purple) is from the March for Babies. Capture Your Grief is an annual, Continue Reading »
Capture Your Grief – Day 15: Community
Like Songbirds Born of the first mother to ever outlive her child, it wrote itself into our DNA like songbirds. It rang through my insides and buried itself inside my belly the morning my son Continue Reading »
Capture Your Grief – Day 9: In Memory
I started Calvin's Cupcakes in memory of my first son Calvin Phoenix. It has been such a humbling honor to abide with other families who have experienced child loss, to share part of their stories, Continue Reading »
Capture Your Grief – Day 3: Before
I took this picture on November 1, 2008. A little over a month after Louie and I were married, a few days after backpacking in Emigrant Wilderness (my first time camping!). I remember how I felt: Continue Reading »
Capture Your Grief – Day 2: Heart
Because I cannot hold them in my arms, I carry them in my heart: Calvin Phoenix (03.05.2009) Rainbow (12.10.2009) Gaelen Evangeline (03.24.2011) Pixel Clementine (11.27.2013) Capture Your Continue Reading »
Capture Your Grief – Day 1: Sunrise
6:56am, San Francisco, CA at sunrise grey overwhelms blue the light fades into mourning wet fog surrounds me I wrote my first version of this poem, "each morning," about two months after Continue Reading »
