My Story
My Thoughts
My job now is to share my story and those of countless others to speak up for those muted by their abusers, to remove the shame and stigma they face every day, and the reticence that keeps them silent. I am not an expert on domestic violence. I’m simply telling you my story in the hope it never becomes yours.
I Was Wrong
My daughter was brutally stabbed to death and gurgled her last breaths with a Kroger's bag over her head because her ex-husband, Shaun Hardy, didn't like the way she looked. According to a police report, she was bleeding from her nose and ears....
My Victims Impact Statement
I wish to thank the court for allowing me the opportunity to address Shaun Philip Hardy on the occasion of his 30-year incarceration.
You Died at 30 — How Can You Be 32?
This time 32 years ago I was at a crawfish boil in Destrehan, Louisiana, and my friends were amusing themselves by watching a nine-months-pregnant woman peel mudbugs with two hands. Of course, they were drinking beer, which added to their mirth. I was so appropriately...
The Grandparent Effect
Has it really been three months since I last posted? Perhaps in your time, but not in mine. Grief stretches the long hours into endless days that swing like a pendulum between occasional work productivity, to hours of Internet obsession about Anne-Christine's murder...
Dia de los Graveside Selfies
Julian took a selfie at Anne-Christine's grave yesterday. The etching on her monument is just to the right of the image while the sun actually creates a halo effect behind his head. It's visually very stunning, but I can't share it here for sadly obvious reasons....
Mother Nature’s Sense of Irony
Hello, Cindy. June 2015: In Canyon Lake with Julian and can't return immediately to Houston after Shaun P. Hardy almost succeeds in killing Anne-Christine. Tropical storm Bill is expected to make landfall between Houston and San Antonio. In the meantime, ACJ takes the...
Hello From the Other Side
On May 12, I was asked to speak at the annual breakfast meeting of Bay Area Turning Point, which provides recovery services for survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault, and facilitates violence-prevention strategies for societal change in partnership with the...
We Installed Her Monument Yesterday
We're headed out in an hour to see Anne-Christine's newly installed monument and have a picnic at Cook Cemetery. I feel a strange sense of peace and closure about this most dreaded aspect of death -- putting someone in the ground. Liberty is approximately an hour's...
Support Texas EquuSearch
We would never have found Anne-Christine without Tim Miller and Texas EquuSearch. I spent over a week at EquuSearch in December 2016, during the terrible period that my daughter lay rotting at 617 Chesterfield Lane in League City, killed by self-confessed murderer...
Happy Birthday, Anne-Christine
Elegy for a forever 30-year-old, on the occasion of her 31st birthday, March 2, 2016. I'm very touched by your presence tonight, and emotional because my daughter is dead, there is nothing I can do to bring her back, and this is her birthday. She would have been 31....
Interregnum
JAN. 11, 2017: On Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, Anne-Christine failed to show up for a Christmas dinner with her father. I didn't learn of this until Monday, Dec. 12, as my crazy black lab Samantha yanked me through the gates of her favorite dog park and my cellphone glowed...
NO MORE
We created this site to honor Anne-Christine's memory by promoting safe and healthy relationships to facilitate freedom from family violence.
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