Floating Fred and the Blooming Gospel

This Wasn’t the Plan, but Neither Was the Urn Going for a Swim.

And here’s your obligatory “Tissue Alert!”

The Day Everything Went Quiet

May 30th isn’t a holiday.
It doesn’t come with cards or casseroles.
But it’s a date forever etched into the quiet corners of my heart—the day I found out my dad had died.

It was 2012, and I was at work in the hospital—serving in my educator role, tucked in my office when the phone rang.…