I can't stop crying.

Unable to go to Kara's wake and funeral: they were in DC today and tomorrow, and it was just too far out of my means to get a flight down there so quickly. I hate this not having money thing; she wasn't exactly a best friend, but she was a classmate from NCS and other good friends will be there. Fuckity fuck fuck ( Read more... )

My grammar-through-high-school classmate, Kara Kennedy, just died. 51.

I feel terrible for her mother, who didn't get to see her very often, and for her kids, who are just now teenagers.

I want to think that she's with her dad and cousins now.

I just don't...

I did indeed make it to Jane's graveside commitment this morning, and did the readings/ceremony for it. marysdress read the Psalm. I think Jane would have liked it. It was, in the end, snot-inducing, we all agreed -- along with agreeing that Jane would have like the term "snot-inducing ( Read more... )

I wonder when or if I'll ever be able to forgive myself for not making it to Jane's funeral today ( Read more... )

Jane, whom I met some 30 or so years ago, when I was still a college student, is gone. She died at home from cancer, where her friends could visit her, and her husband -- one of the strongest men I know -- could love her and care for her. She was younger than me ( Read more... )

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The "Misquote" Page at Windhaven Press has finally been updated, replete with a "Best Sentence of 2005" (which is not a misquote, but instead a truly fine sentence that deserves recognition for its brief but sterling quality and visual punch ( Read more... )

I'm mostly offline, not necessarily just due to my father's death (at 92 it wasn't unexpected) but due to the entire mess of too many phone calls (business as well as stuff about Dad) and migraines settling in every few hours ( Read more... )