Here's my sometimes strange, but certainly full last 7 days ( Read more... )

The news mentioned this will be our first New Years without Dick Clark in a long, long time. I admit I had actually forgotten that he died this year. Was he ours? I mean, publicity talks of Dick Clark the perennial teen, but I still think of him as my mother's TV guy. I remember somewhere in the early to mid 70's Jack Benny died. Both my parents ( Read more... )

I just have to stop and say "wow" sometimes. I don't think I would ever believe anyone if they said I would wake up again. First of all I didn't know I was so deeply layered in the cotton batting. I guess it's just that comfortable there. And I have no idea if everyone has the same awakening type of experience. Grief sends us down the same path, ( Read more... )

Well, and then I discovered today that one of my neighbors died. The lady behind me who didn't like SaraJane. Her inside/outside cat would come over sit on the fence and SaraJane would bark at her. Neighbor (also named Sarah) didn't like this. Consequently, she and I didn't talk much ( Read more... )

A prominent and relatively young female district judge died today after a long battle with cancer. I knew her more professionally than anything, but many, many people were affected by her life and her passing. I've come to realize before today that I still mourn for Preston every time I hear of a cancer death ( Read more... )

Preston and I finalized our will last week. It is a sobering thought, but a needful one. This insures that the greedy grasping half brother of Preston's can't get his hands on any of Preston's stuff ever. Now I'm on to fixing up the information so it's easy to sort through for the persons who have to sort through papers ( Read more... )

I don't know why Sundays are my favorite catch up day here, but apparently it is the truth ( Read more... )

Before I start this, I need to say I am in no way feeling morbid, received any bad diagnosis, even have a bad case of the sniffles ( Read more... )