Martin Connors's Blog – January 2012 Archive (2)

Changes and Revelations

Sometimes, not always, but sometimes I feel that I let him down. When I got that phone call, I was literally physically passing the hospital to pick him up at his school. Why do I feel this way? My answer, to me, is that Tim called out to me to come get him. My friends, family, priest, and therapist all tell me I should not feel this way...and that to feel this way is normal with any grieving parent. I get reminded that it’s a loving parent that will die protecting his or her child - I…

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Added by Martin Connors on January 25, 2012 at 9:03pm — 1 Comment

Mid-Winter's Slumber

This is a short story I had written last year. I wrote it three months before my Tim was killed. I took an experience going to a relative’s house in the middle of the night because someone died. I modeled the little boy after Timmy. I forgot all about it, until someone commented on it tonight on Facebook.

Mid-Winter…

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Added by Martin Connors on January 10, 2012 at 10:30pm — No Comments