Got a call from Abram today to let me know that Dave Duprey hung himself two nights ago and is dead ( Read more... )

Going over to Uncle Mike's tonight for dinner, Irish coffee and a thank-you letter writing party for funeral attendees ( Read more... )

Last night I was up til 3am crying. It started out feeling guilty about things I had done/had not done while Lael was alive, and then turned into shock and terror when I remembered that that body I had said goodbye to was hers and she's not coming back. I had felt so much relief that the funeral was over and things were calming down a little, and ( Read more... )

So I go into the woods, and I tear off my shirt, and I bare myself to the winds which have known more of ancient frustration and tears than I could ever hope to contain in my body. I let the wind take my pain and make it one with its own, and somehow I feel better that my pain is now one with the world's.How can it be one week? I understand now ( Read more... )

In her casket we put a cigarette, a bottle of caramel and a card that had that quote on it. A friend stopped by at calling hours and anonymously left a small key ( Read more... )

J.D. Salinger died today.

Thanks for everything, sir. Your books changed my life and without you I don't know what would have become of me as a person.

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you ( Read more... )

My "Grandma" June died on Monday. I just found out when I called her house to tell her my brother and I were coming to visit tomorrow with a present for her. Her funeral was this morning, and they tried to get in touch with me, but they couldn't find where she had put my number, so I had to find out today when I called. I was just out by her house ( Read more... )