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My name is Rhonda. I'm a registered nurse, for the last 20 years, that has not been able to work since the day I learned of my daughter's death by suicide 4-12-13. (She actually died 4-11-13 and her body was not found until the 12th) Me and my husband have been married for 32 years and he's a wonderful man. We grieve in different ways. He works, I write. This is my journey through this horrible land of losing a child..
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Tag Archives: poetry
Morning Glories, Peaches and My Kaitlyn’s Spirit
Some of you might remember last October when I told of the one single purple morning glory that we saw in the brush/wooded area in our back yard that was surrounded by nothing but dead brush. It was right there … Continue reading
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Cosmos, Dandelions and Parachutes
One of my favorite poems that Kaitlyn wrote is “Dandelion.” I never knew of its existence until after she died and found where she had written it when she was in undergrad and it was in a publication they had. … Continue reading
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Poetry From a 13 Year Old Kaitlyn
got another gift today. One of Kaitlyn’s friends, Summer Britt, that she was friends with growing up in school met me today so I could sign her copy of my book. When I met her we talked for a long … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, bipolar, children, death, depression, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, poetry, sadness, school, suicide
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“Introduction.” A Preview of My New Book
In order to help people decide whether or not they want to buy my book, I thought I would post my “Introduction” that I wrote that is in my book that helps explain the purpose of my book, what it … Continue reading
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The Days of Wine and Roses
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes Within a dream.” –Ernest Dowson
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My Book Is Now For Sale on Amazon.com!!!
MY BOOK IS NOW ON AMAZON.COM FOR SALE!!!! I just checked on amazon.com and lo and behold my book is there and for sale!! I was not expecting it so soon because I had just completed the final updates with … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, author, bipolar, book, books, children, college, counseling, death, depression, family, gifted children, grief, intelligence, loss, loss of a child, Medical school, mental health, mental illness, poetry, psychiatry, schools, suicide, suicide prevention, university, writing
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Costume
Costume “Every morning I wake up And get ready for the costume ball I put on my mask And dress that is not my own This outfit I don Is not my true style But I wear it anyway Because … Continue reading
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I Always Knew
I Always Knew Trying So hard To reach your toys by crawling. Running searching Trying to reach the eggs Without falling. And you had eyes of blue Skin so fair and I always knew That I knew you so well … Continue reading
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Pablo Neruda, Patch Adams and Kaitlyn
I’ve always loved the movie Patch Adams and had not watched it in a long time. I’m kind of strange in the fact that since Kaitlyn died, I try to avoid most movies that have anything to do with doctors … Continue reading
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Falling Into Being
Falling into Being You, you with the clovers in your hair, your braided sun beams. Flowers and winged things. How you’ll never know the species of them, but you know them by their colors–their tiny reflected sunlights. You call them … Continue reading
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My Bright Shining Star 