by Robin Farnsworth | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog Post, Hope, Loss, Love
The nurse snapped the paper to a clipboard, handed it to me with a pen, then looked back at her computer screen. “I’m going to tell you three words, then I will ask what they are after you draw the face of a clock, and set the time to 11:10.” She paused. “Apple, car,...
by Robin Farnsworth | Feb 6, 2025 | Loss
The boy with the blond hair poking out from the dirty baseball cap grabbed his mitt and ambled across the lawn, then crossed the street. “Where you going?” I called after Timmy. “To the school.” He turned enough to catch my face, then he skipped onto the sidewalk....
by Robin Farnsworth | Dec 9, 2023 | Hope, Loss, Random
*** Dear friends, This is a repost, but also a timeless reminder to slow down this Christmas season! The internet went out on November 24th. At first I thought, No big deal. I can get around it. But one day and one hour with tech support turned into a week and...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jun 1, 2023 | Dementia, Loss
Aunt Lila was dying. She knew this, but often forgot. No one knew when it all began, the cancer that likely sprouted as first a small seed within a dormant ovary, a sleeping grain of terror. Then it grew, and grew, indiscreetly dropping more seeds into the dark womb...
by Robin Farnsworth | Nov 30, 2021 | Blog Post, Faith, Loss, Love
We don’t have a title! I wasn’t quite sure I understood my friend, sitting across her living room from me. What? We don’t have a title. You know, like woman who have lost their husbands are called “widows.” But mothers who have lost a child...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jul 7, 2021 | Loss, Redemption, Uncategorized
Bap, bap, bap…the sound of a basketball hitting pavement still gives me a strange sense of comfort. I am transported back to gymnasiums, the squeak of sneakers on the floor, the shriek of a ref’s whistle. Though my eyes never left my child, eventually I learned...
