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Mother's Day
I'm developing as much a loathing for Mother's Day as I have for Father's Day. Earlier today, I actually thought: "I should call Mom up, since it's Mother's Day and all."
Stupid, stupid, fucking stupid.You would think, with the whole fiasco of having to go through her house and sell everything, that I would remember that she's been dead. Hell, ( Read more... ) -
נר נשמה
Damned Jewish calendar. It would, of course, figure that my mother's Yartzeit would fall on Thanksgiving. I can't believe it's been a year -- an akwardly elongated Jewish year at that -- that my mother has been gone. In many ways, I am what I am (an illustrator, a linguist -- even a self-idenfitied Jew) because of my mother, and it's still so ( Read more... ) -
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I've dreaded it, yet I've wanted it to be over and done with. It was my mother's estate sale.
I have to say, right now ...
- It's hard to NOT feel like a bit of a tomb robber. Obviously I can't keep the stuff, and there's few options of what to do with it if I DON'T sell it, but that still doesn't change that feeling, especially as complete ( Read more... )
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Estate Sale
It's been posted via Facebook and Google+ already, but it bears repeating: we have a solid date for my mom's house's estate sale. It will be in Romeoville on September 9th and 10th.
Thommy, the guy who's helped set up the estate sale has put up a page here. -
Fuck you, dream state.
Last night I had a dream my mother was still alive. it seemed so real and vivid, and I remember waking up this morning, realising that it was in fact NOT real.
Fuck you, dream state. -
Yes, more about Mom
So about four months ago -- when Mom died -- we were trying to contact everyone we could, who knew Mom, who would want to know what happened. One who we couldn't reach was my cousin Dawn. I'm not sure what's been going on in Dawn's life, but she'd always been between jobs, moving -- her life was pretty unstable. I had regained contact with her ( Read more... )
