by Sharon Freeman | Feb 10, 2022 | Our Family Stories
This is a story of a wedding day with a piece missing – the father of the groom. It’s the story of a son who never knew his father. My friend Rosemary was six months pregnant when her husband Doug was killed in a workplace fatality. Their son Christopher was born...
by adminThreadsofLife | Jan 25, 2022 | Our Family Stories
by Roger HudsonI first heard of Jamie’s death on the radio on my way home from work. They said that a young man from Lower Sackville had died on a jobsite in Cape Breton. I thought: wonder who that was and if I knew them … never thinking that it could have been...
by Virginia Campeau | Oct 3, 2019 | Our Family Stories
“Life has not been easy trying to navigate this world alone.” When I got married it was truly the best day that I could have possibly imagined. As I walked down the aisle and saw my future husband standing at the altar waiting for me, I knew we were going to be an...
by Kirsten deFilippis | Jun 13, 2019 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, Our Family Stories
When I was four years old, my father died while at his workplace. He was a field engineer on a construction site. One Friday afternoon while marking lines, he was asked to help brace a wall in the elevator shaft. He and his apprentice Mark went to assist their...
by Marleen Pitruzzella | Jun 13, 2019 | Our Family Stories
My story begins on July 13, 2009 with my mom picking me up from summer camp that afternoon. Just like any other day we were picked up, my brother and I would ask the same questions repeatedly, “what is for dinner? And when will daddy be home?” Unfortunately for us,...
by Cathy McNeil | Jun 13, 2019 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, Our Family Stories
It’s so very dark out. I can hear sirens; there are so many people in my house. What is going on? A priest enters the back door with a couple of men; my mother falls to the floor. She is inconsolable. Who are these men? Who are all of these people? Family...
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