Writing the book, Here We Go Joe has given me an opportunity to push past my fears and walk down an unmarked road. Even the obstacles, challenges, and detours this road has laid out before me have been worth traveling. A time of rediscovering, digging deeper into my inner soul. Allowing life to take onContinue reading “My Unmarked Road”
Author Archives: Cora Darrah
Here we Go Joe with Dementia Love Honor & Dignity
Download the first two chapters of Here We Go Joe here! FREE First 2 Chapters of Here We Go Joe Here We Go Joe is a true story inspired by 18 months that Cora Darrah spent assisting her husband and sister-in-law with the emotional decision of moving Joe—her father-in-law who suffers with dementia andContinue reading “Here we Go Joe with Dementia Love Honor & Dignity”
Rain Showers
It’s been weeks since we had our last good rain shower. Yesterday, I had several flowers just shrivel up and die in the intense heat. One day they were thriving and the next gone. As I woke ready to play tennis and walk the dogs, I realized that God had different plans. The sky wasContinue reading “Rain Showers”
Morning Time
Morning time. Birds are singing their own unique songs as they fly through the dense green forest. Sunlight glistens across the water and sparkles likes diamonds through the trees. Squirrels draw closer and closer and then scamper away when a sudden movement is made. The coolness of the morning spreads across my skin like aContinue reading “Morning Time”
Conversations on the Porch
Conversations on the porch. A place where the people gather to talk and sing their troubles away. A time of huddling together in the last days of life. Songs that were familiar in distant childhoods are sung without regard to harmony or pitch. No one here would have chosen this destination and several still fightContinue reading “Conversations on the Porch”
So Here I Go
“So Elijah did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. Some time later the brook dried up because there hadContinue reading “So Here I Go”
My Garden of Friends
In John 15:12 Jesus stated, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” The tears are fresh and the hurt continues to stab at my heart. I need to change my thoughts to the gifts that I have been given. My grandson’s birthday. I remember the two hour drive to Statesville,Continue reading “My Garden of Friends”
This Suffocating Feeling
There is a suffocating feeling that has been pressing down on me for the last couple of days. Exhaustion and a sense of sadness has wrapped its arms around me, squeezing me ever so tightly. Life before was so easy to glide through like a bird soaring over an open field. Now, thoughts of realityContinue reading “This Suffocating Feeling”
Suspended
When I was a little girl, I lived across the street from a park that had been created on a hilly incline with trees towering over and a creek slithering through it. There were shelters made out of boulders that smelled like charcoal from many a cookout. The rustic park also held all the traditionalContinue reading “Suspended”
The Gift of Obscurity
When I was a little girl I would love to pretend that I was someone famous and that everywhere I went people would notice me. I often wonder if the reason I desired this came from being one of the youngest in my family. Five children, all within three and a half years definitely overwhelmedContinue reading “The Gift of Obscurity”