The Year was 1985… The day was the typical dreary, gray overcast that is familiar to anyone who has experienced a December in Pennsylvania. Sue and I were visiting her parents over college break. I was driving her 1975 Mercury Monarch. Sue was in the passenger’s seat and her Aunt was in the back. We…
by Kari Diviney I Lost My World. Four years ago today I lost my hero. I lost the one I looked up to since I was born. I lost my protector, my world, my everything. I lost my big brother. Yes he is still alive, but it’s not Ryan anymore… it’s everything Ryan was, and…
Every Cell in My Body is Crying It’s 3:12AM. The house is still and unlit. I can’t sleep. It’s just too much for me to bear. I hurt so badly. It’s EXACTLY twenty-four hours from the time Ryan was maliciously attacked four long years ago. This day, and tomorrow, will bring me to my knees…
The anniversary of Ryan’s brutal beating is just days away. Three days, to be exact. The week leading up to this is the worst… except for the actual day, November 7th. The day that everything changed forever. The day Austin Vantrease and Jonathan May (both of Newark, Delaware) reigned despair on my son and family…
I hate the first week of November. Hate it! I guess I always have too, because now there is no fantasy that any remnant of summer is still in the air. Those eighty-degree days are long gone, at least in my neck of the woods. Taking the dogs out in the morning requires a jacket…