Today I seen my old (101 years old) friend laid out. Of course, it didn't look like her, none of her personality showing thru. It wasn't unexpected, it wasn't particularly unwanted (she had been very ill almost all year) but of course it hurts just the same. I hope I got my wits and body about me when I get old....

Today would have been my mom's 78th birthday. She died about 13 years ago. Tonight my dear cubs will come over & we will eat Chinese food (because Mom liked Chinese food) and maybe watch a movie, it depends.
When my mom died, the visiting nurse said I looked just like my mom. I don't really but it made me feel good at the time.  I would deny I'm ( Read more... )

The other day I was watching Local Point TV and it had "Storytellers" on. This is, obviously, a local station and the people on "Storytellers" live in the Baltimore-Washington area.  Sometimes te stories are funny, sometimes not so great. But Twain Dooley's story was differnet from most.
Mr Dooley talked about growing up as a latchley kid . (For ( Read more... )

My grandmother died Sunday. It wasn't unexpected, she celebrated her 100th birthday in December. She had been in the hospital in October for pneumonia and she decided at that time she did not want any heroics or any other visits to the hospital. My aunt and my uncles were with her when she died.  She was laid out Tuesday in Virginia and she will be ( Read more... )

Is it really possible that my father-in-law has been gone for 18 years? I can't believe it. He was one of the kindest, sweetest men I have ever met. He could (and did) fix anything. He didn't freak out when Kimba brought a woman that already had 2 kids home to meet the parents. He was great to the cubs and great to us, also. He worked_hard_ all his ( Read more... )

No, really I do when I'm at work...or maybe the work is "ignorant"...whatever it is, here's the story ( Read more... )

I found out Saturday my friend Philomena died. Not that it was "unexpected" - after all, a weird type of leukemia that doesn't respond to anything, a bone marrow transplant that failed, other treatments not working *sigh*. But not that it was _expected_ either. I guess I hoped something, anything would happen and her body would right itself ( Read more... )

July 24 should be like any other day, right? My mom died 11 years ago on July 24, so I should be _way_ over it. But I'm not. I didn't particularly want to go to work Monday, but as I'm never eager to get to work, I just chalked it up to that. It is the busy time at work for me, so it's not like I had a lot of choices ( Read more... )

There was a column last week in the July 14, 2006 issue of "Life" (it is sometimes in a newspaper Sunday supplement) that was called "The River of Memory" and it is written by Patti Davis (yes the Patti Davis that is Ronald Reagan's daughter). I tried to locate it online, no luck ( Read more... )

I made it thru the funeral with my mouth mostly shut - if you know me, you know how hard it was ( Read more... )