I just got a call from Dad. I was out (am out) for my walk so he left me a voicemail. “I’m a little short of money”, he said. Of course there was more but this is the jist of it. Now I don’t know what that means, does he have no money in his …
It’s my son’s birthday today, but I can’t wish him happy birthday because he passed away suddenly 12 years ago, on Jan. 18, of a rare heart condition called Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (AVRD). If he was with us today he would be turning 30 years old. I miss him, sometimes painfully, and I think …
The snow is falling, or what could be loosely described as snow. Maybe dust, white powder dust would be more appropriate, almost like large flakes of flour. The kind of dust that you barely glimpse, but can see when the sunshine catches them as it’s rays filters through the window. This same white powder fell …
All is done and we’ve survived another one, at least I have to this point anyway. Mo is still cooking though and likely won’t be done until later tonight. She upholds her Grandma’s commandments, all 37 or more of them, this one being that no turkey shall be cooked without the bones being boiled for …
I feel better today, mind you it’s only just short of 10 am and I haven’t had any beer yet LOL. I probably should be cautious about joking about alcohol consumption, I could give the wrong idea. The wrong idea would be that I drink too much, and I know that is a relative thing. …
It’s often interesting to me how the written word, and often other benign media, can have such an impact on ones mood, in this case bringing me to sadness. It’s not only the sadness of loss, which I certainly feel, but the sadness of loves felt and missed. The book I’m reading, fiction in this …