Salonen: Chandler's poem connects with Gabriel's loss
Salonen shares a poem by Tim Murphy that struck a chord this Mother's Day. Written By: Roxane Salonen | × Roxane Salonen FARGO — Gabriel is the name we’d chosen for him, “God is my strength,” not long before he slipped from our lives and into God’s hands. We would come to need that strength in the days following, and in every day since. And each year at this time, since that May 2 day in 1999, we remember our dear one who went missing from miscarriage. May has become for us a mingling of memories and milestones, of celebrating motherhood, recitals, ceremonies, graduations, and th...