It is so hard to swallow... difficult to digest...

Hardly a year since Keleigh was killed by the drunk driver on a Sunday morning in March.. Amy Doucha lost her life in a car accident... on a Sunday morning.. in March.

Being as close as I am to her mother makes this all very troubling to me... as her mom put it, "Amy was like the best person in the ( Read more... )

This is a piece I wrote quite some time ago...

A morbid wind smacked her cheeks as the rain came down in quarter-sized drops. Angela could see nothing but rain --

sweeping,

sweeping,

sweeping across the sidewalk which her feet rested upon. The reality of death became all too obvious.. her best friend was gone. Forever. She stood, though she knew not ( Read more... )

I was going to do an entry about pathways, and where different ones have led me lately.. but in pulling up Open Diary and glancing over my favorites, I clicked on one in bold ('forever in motion,' to be exact), only to find an entire entry about the exact same topic. It was a really good entry and covered many of the things I felt the need to ( Read more... )

Maxseena -- not just your typical "pound" cat. She adopted my mother at the pound about 10 years ago, when she rubbed her fluffy little body along the bars of her cage. My Mom couldn't resist bringing her home from Animal Control -- she would make a wonderful playmate for our kitty, Max. The sign above her cage read "6 Days," meaning that she'd ( Read more... )

If 179 more days like this are to follow, I wish to throw in my towel, in advance. This first day of school was absolutely Terrible. My schedule is nearly uncorrectable, for starters. It's a big mess. I'm sure more entries will follow on the schedule saga unless I manage to get the problem panned out in the morning (highly unlikely with the current ( Read more... )

That's what they've chosen to call it. The website. IDELL, which stands for Ivan, David, Evelyng, LeeAnn and Lila. "Our little group," as we tend to call it.

LeeAnn and Evelyng started a website this past Saturday, unknown to me until last evening. Evelyng began asking me for pictures of us, and I figured she'd wanted them for her slideshow ( Read more... )