It's been a while. Somewhere along the way, I have celebrated my twentieth year in my present abode; 71 years on the planet and 17 years at this blog ( Read more... )

This has been a difficult summer. So far, at least three close relationships have spent time in hospital, with one facing insurmountable odds against leaving while of this planet. They are Bing, one of my best friends; my brother and my lone surviving parental sibling, my Aunt Nannie ( Read more... )

It's taken me about twenty-five years to get used to the fact that people no longer use their telephones to talk. We use them to communicate; to stay in touch, mostly by email and increasingly by text messaging. Under normal circumstances, we are able to self-correct for any misunderstandings or crossed wires by simple, ordinary face-to-face ( Read more... )

Dad has been dead for nearly forty-five years and while it wasn't completely unusual to have dreams about him, I don't recall a period where I dreamed quite so much about him as these last few years since Mom joined him ( Read more... )