By Donna Brendel I’ve lost many family members over the years, starting with my mom when I was only 10 years old. I didn’t watch her die, but we were both in a house fire that took her life. Although my siblings and I all escaped the flames and toxic smoke, neither my mom nor […]
By Donna Brendel I couldn’t say the words out loud, so I worked as fast as I could while I still had some courage. I ripped a sheet of paper out of my notebook and grabbed a crayon since I couldn’t find any pens. In green letters big enough to fill the page, I wrote, […]
