This past Saturday was my baby boy Cole's 10th birthday party. It occurred on what would have been Shane's 33rd birthday had he lived. For those new to this blog, Shane was my best friend who died suddenly in 2000 and Cole is his only son, who was 3 years old at the time of his death. It's been very hard trying to carry on with our lives and we ( Read more... )

June 28, 200620 years ago today the most important person in my life, my friend Staci, committed suicide. In two days it will be the 6th anniversary of the death of my friend Shane, Maggie's first husband and Cole's Daddy. I get especially sensitive to Cole during this time, because I go back to the promise I made Shane that I would always look ( Read more... )

I'm much happier in the Fall, it is my favorite time of year. We're going to be under another heat advisory today - it was 105° yesterday, predicting 110° for today. I want to go to the mountains this Fall, I want to sit beside raging white water all wrapped up snugly in my fleece, and I want to jettison all the mental and emotional negativity ( Read more... )

D and I are driving up into north Georgia (Rome, specifically) tomorrow morning where Robb's funeral is being held. I was asked by his mother to be a pallbearer since we were so close growing up, which I am going to do ( Read more... )

Man dies in semi crash

There's video of the car, which you cannot even tell what it is. I'm going home to get ficking drunk now.

My cousin Robb was killed in Atlanta today in a car crash. My sister called to give me the news about an hour after it happened. It's strange, it was always Lynn, Robb, and me either together or seperately all summer long - all of us together on some weekends, or me at the others' house for weeks at a time over the sumer and winter breaks. And ( Read more... )