(I'll skip what comes before, now ( Read more... )

The news came: one of my college roommates died three weeks ago. What a shock. Her husband called last night. I am still trying to figure out how I feel about this. She was a year or so younger than most of us. She became my roommate and we just adopted her into the fold. I haven't seen her for two and a half decades, I think, so it is fair to say ( Read more... )

fringefaan wrote about the impending death from cancer of a friend of his Home from the islandThis reminded me that I have not written about the deaths in my family this past year. I won't write of them now either. I find myself numb about them. I did write about the death of our other MIL Eileen Lovett. The expected death last January of my Aunt who was 93 ( Read more... )