I’m taking part in The JLF Trek to remember Nick and help prevent other families facing the same loss.

Five years. Forty years.

This year marks five years since Nick passed away, and it would have been his 40th birthday. Grief doesn’t disappear with time, but it does change. It softens and reshapes itself into something you learn to carry differently.

So instead of letting those dates quietly pass, we’re choosing to mark them in a way that feels meaningful. We’re taking on the JLF Trek as “Nickers’ Trail Blazers,” because it felt fitting..

We’re walking in his memory and raising funds for a cause that is working to prevent other families from facing the kind of loss so many have experienced.

Thank you for remembering him with us, for supporting us, and for helping turn something painful into something purposeful.