Cora Vivienne, Little Lionheart

In case you didn't know, I had an amazing girl we called Cora Lionheart, who entered this world on a ribbon of grace, and who then quietly left it on July 16, 2013. She was eight-and-a-half months old.
And what a girl she was! Just this tiny thing who radiated goodness, peacefulness and a feeling of acceptance. A girl who was less like a child and more like a great choreographer, bringing people together at the right times, moving us easily toward...

To close Cora’s funeral we chose to sing the famous gospel hymn, This Little Light of Mine. I’ve been thinking about those words in the weeks and months since that day. From the moment Cora was born, we were presented with very few true choices; none...

This will be my last post. Some people have asked me if I will continue writing this blog now that Cora is gone, and I'm afraid the answer is no. It has been an honor to introduce you to our little lionheart, and to have you behind us, and with us, on...

These last couple of days have been hard. Well, they've all been hard. But these last ones have felt particularly so.
As we approach Cora's service on Tuesday, I have a heaviness in my heart. It's natural for things to reach a sort of crescendo in the days following someone's death, and then after a while, to have things calm down a bit, and in some way, to have life...