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2018

Approaching the One Year Anniversary of My Child's Death

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First Christmas Card Without You

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2017

The Beautifully Possible: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Crescent Cove

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Crescent Cove to Open: A Special resource for children and families

Co-authored article with Ted Bowman for the Minnesota Coalition for Death Education and Support

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On the Cusp: further unraveling after my child's death

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Fragments of a Routine

What remains when a child with medical complexities dies

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The Trees Weep with Me

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Announcing Levi’s Life Celebration

 

Levi has Lifted off Into Heaven

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Heaven’s a Coming

Levi prepares for death

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Life is Meant to be Enlivening

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Palliative WHO? Meet the Sherpas who Help us Navigate the Diagnosis of Uncertainty

Guest blog posting for Pediatric Home Service

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2016

Sacred 7th Birthday

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A Mother’s Advent on Behalf of her Son

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Remembering Levi’s Friend Isaac

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Palliative WHAT? Understanding the Team that Keeps my Son out of the Hospital

Guest blog posting for Pediatric Home Service

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A Letter to my Son’s Doctors

Article published in the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's ChiPPS' e-journal

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Ear Tube Surgery: Success

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MNRI Family Therapy Conference Updates

Bootcamp: Day 8

Bootcamp: Days 6 & 7

Bootcamp: Days 4 & 5

Bootcamp: Days 2 & 3

Bootcamp: Day 1

Bootcamp: Coming Soon

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Thank you Mother

Tribute to my Mother

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5 Minutes that Changed my Life for the Better

Guest blog post for Pediatric Home Service

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The Dancing Shirt

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One Breath in, No Breath Out

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Allowing the Sabbath to Overtake Me

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Time for a Hug

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A Quiet Medical Epidemic

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2015

The Surprises of 2015

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Those Old Familiar Roads

Levi's 6th Birthday

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Nowhere to Die

Article and Video by Star Tribune

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Goodbye Dear Isaac

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Visiting a Dying Friend

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Super-Powered Mom

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National Institute of Nursing Research

Featured in campaign: Palliative Care, Conversations Matter ®

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Dr Gawande: A Breath of Fresh Air

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Roundtable with Senator Al Franken

Speaking with Senator Al Franken on the importance of Palliative Care

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What Palliative Care Means to Us

Published Article for National Institute of Nursing Research’s campaign Palliative Care, Conversations Matter ®

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When my Son is Sick

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A Week of No Sleep

 

Sharing a Muffin

 

MN Capitol Testimony

Testifying in the House and Senate in support of increased funding for Interveners who support children with deafblindness. In the final budget, the bill was passed to increase funding of $1million over two years.

 

Video: One Day

A dramatized example of what we experience as a family with a child with a shortened life expectancy.

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2014

I Had Never Imagined

Levi’s 5th birthday

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Winter Surrender

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No Longer Big

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Beauty & The Beast

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The Arrival of Spring

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