Jenn St. Onge was brave, and she was compassionate. More than anything, that's how I remember her ( Read more... )

HOWARD - Yauncey M. Newman, 76, of Howard, passed away Sept. 26, 2011, at his residence.This brief obituary doesn't begin to express the role that Yauncey and Juanita played for so many of us students at Kenyon. They were family for those of us away from home. They fed us, they loved us, they showed us wonderful fireworks views. Yauncey's puzzle ( Read more... )

As I just said to NL:
You don't have to worry about walking on eggshells around me, btw. Normal life is good, not disrespectful to her memory or my grief.

Trivial and cheerful and mundane and silly are all welcome.

Thank you for all the messages since yesterday. I'm doing reasonably well today; really emotionally exhausted but feeling relatively peaceful about things ( Read more... )

I only have a few handy in my LJ galleries, but here's Mushroom in her younger and rounder days.


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Becca just got ahold of me. They found her already gone, down in "The Pit" (a strange part of our living room that's really more part of the basement), where she liked to retreat when it got hot. Tomorrow I'll take her to Gateway for cremation, and I'll check to see if they can use her newest bottle of meds that was just delivered and is still ( Read more... )

We let Fatty Lumpkin go Thursday morning, nose still buried in his favorite soft food. It was gentle and quick, and although I've gotten weepy a number of times in the past two days directly because of that, I'm mostly doing ok (except for the dream of chasing missing cats through dorms while trying to move). The emotionality is popping up all ( Read more... )

Bea and Malin made it past 100 living together in their home. I haven't seen them since I was a very small child, so I'm not personally grieving particularly, but their passing is definitely worth note, although perhaps more in celebration of their uncommonly long and healthy lives than in grief. And I'm not at all surprised they went out within ( Read more... )

Baldur was one of our elderly cats, and it'd really been showing recently. Wednesday around 3am we found him back behind a desk in really bad shape. We got him doing a bit better at home, and then took him into our vet that morning as soon as they opened, and they confirmed my fears. Thankfully, since we'd contacted Zeldajean first thing, she was already ( Read more... )

I almost never sleep more than a few hours at a time; I'm generally up in the middle of whatever my "night" is for at least an hour or two. Since I've moved to second shift, this means around 7am or so, which is right when early-bird Mark is up and about and going out to grab coffee at the diner across the street, so he often brings me back a ( Read more... )