by TheLoveofMyLife | Apr 27, 2017 | In the Words of the Kids, Love of My Life
Several months before the love of my life, my beautiful bride, passed, I began to write love letters. The normal CaringBridge approach of talking about the disease, her cancer, just didn’t seem right to me. After Maureen’s passing, I continued to write,...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Feb 14, 2017 | Love of My Life
Post Co-Published on Mom’s Next Move A Site by J.C. Conklin & Monica Samuels Monica Samuels is a fellow St. Andrew’s parent, with a son in 9th grade, like my daughter, Kyla. As I explore taking my writing from the blog page to book form, Monica has...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Dec 16, 2016 | In the Words of the Kids, Love of My Life
On the way into St. Andrew’s Episcopal School this morning, I was already a little wistful thinking about the fact that this was Taylor’s “last” time to be at Lessons and Carols. Maureen and I have loved this service since he first sang...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Dec 13, 2016 | Love of My Life
“Can you imagine what it’s like seeing life from the other side?” For those that have followed my writing for a while, you know Teo’s Gelato on 38th in Austin is a special place for me. Last Wednesday, I was sitting at Teo’s, after...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Oct 21, 2016 | In the Words of the Kids, Love of My Life
It is one thing for me to tell the story of the love of my life, Maureen. It is quite another when your children tell their stories of their love for their mom. On October 21, 2016, our son, Taylor Thompson, told the story of his love for his mom in a moving homily at...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Sep 20, 2016 | In the Words of the Kids, Love of My Life
2 years ago, Taylor, Kyla, Katelyn, Maureen and I were all in Chicago. We had a grand time, watching a Cubs baseball game and a Northwestern football game. We had Chicago style pizza, visited our first apartment, our first house, and the church in which Maureen and I...
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