Jennifer Funk Fine Art

HOPE {in Color}

A blog about living with loss and finding a new yes

ARTIST LIFE * MOM LIFE * WIDOW LIFE

Life is still good. Throw some paint on it.

HOPE {in Color}

2013

New Year. I’ve been looking back over 2013 and realizing a few things. 2013 was a big year for our little family. We had lots

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On It’s Own

On It’s Own Today marks 5 1/2 years since Brad’s death. It’s interesting how the passage of time changes things. {and how it doesn’t} I

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A New Yes

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage —pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically,  to say “no” to other things. And the way you

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Dance

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get

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Five Years

Today marks five years since Brad’s death. That is crazy to me. Five years sounds like a long time. And it’s weird because it seems

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Dinner

We sang while making dinner the other day. And I missed you. But it wasn’t the aching, lump in my throat missing you that I

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Searching

After Brad died I used to have the most horrible, crushingly sad dream.    In the dream I had just lost Brad again.   Throughout

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Fancy Valentines

So it’s safe to say that Valentines day is no longer one of my favorite holidays. to be honest, it pretty much blows now. And

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Ty

Brad – Do you remember when Ty was trying out for soccer at Burkburnett Middle School? And, you must have been flying lates that day

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10 Years

10 yrs ago this last weekend I met my soul mate. And he changed everything. I’ve been thinking about that magical little weekend 10 years

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