The Season
“I gave up trying to quit.”
Those were some of the last words that my oldest son, Deacon, said as he smiled down to me on the night he and Garrett died. He was hugging me goodbye and I teased him about the fact that he had just patted me on the back like he had every single time he hugged me since the age of three years. It was his signature move that he always hated and I always loved.
Last night I couldn’t sleep. It was about 1:00am and every time I would close my eyes th