I sent a livejournal message to my sister tonight......she has been dead for seven years.

I also sent a message to lj support asking them to memorialize her livejournal account......her time on lj was brief. I read her posts over and over again.  She is always just beginning to feel the bump of her unborn child within her. She is forever eating ( Read more... )

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My sister’s beeswax hair is everywhere now ( Read more... )

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I love John Lennon as much as the next guy but the song "Imagine" has always bothered me.

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try

I imagined there was no heaven once, gathered all my strength and imagined that this life is all there is.

above us only skyI imagined this not just for an hour or a day, but every waking moment for several ( Read more... )

In 2001 I asked several family members and friends to tell me their top ten favorite books. Here's what Karma told me were her favorite books:

~Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

~Lord of the Flies by William Golding

~Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens

~The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

~Wuthering Heights by Emily ( Read more... )

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At my sister's funeral, my father got up and spoke briefly to all who had gathered. He said that he had lost his daughter 10 years ago when she moved to Texas (and married a Texan). Someone shouted out, "You didn't lose a daughter, you gained a son!" My dad also said that his biggest fear when his daughter moved to Texas was that she would vote ( Read more... )