The nightmares stopped years and years ago, but there's still a hole in my heart that will never heal. Sure, other friends have come into my life and Grinch-like made my heart bigger so I could love them all, but that doesn't change the fact that my friend Scott is gone ( Read more... )

Tuesday night was a string of perfect moments, back-to-back-to-back. (I know, I know... when I am Enlightened I will realize that they are *all* perfect, but until I am that smart, I will simply say that I was more aware of the perfection of Tuesday ( Read more... )

Those of you in Tejas may have heard that a game warden drowned this week trying to save a swimmer ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, a co-worker (in another department, but someone with whom I had collaborated several times) died from complications of her lap band surgery ( Read more... )

This song always reminds me of Jimmy. Most of the time, I love the random shuffle feature of my MP3 player. Sometimes it blindsides me.

It was an early morning phone call December ( Read more... )

The nightmares have (mostly) faded, but the pain? It's abated a little in terms of frequency but when it comes, it's full force. Even after 13 years it is keen as ever. Such losses have no "use by" date ( Read more... )

( Sharing a touching piece passed on to me from someone on a NASA news list )

What a horrifically sad thing to wake up to. My sister punkinbutt told me how she & Ice Man would get up at 3am to watch the shuttle come in. At the top of the Texas hill Country you can see with such clarity. She said it was unimaginably beautiful. I'm sorry that she, like all of us, will only see sorrow in that beauty from this day forward ( Read more... )

Yes, I realize he's an actor who just played a character I liked. It still sucks.

Doyle truly is no more.

Feeling a little hollow and unsure of what to do with myself. JD's uncle died last night. Fell off his balcony-blunt head trauma. Don't know the circumstances. He called me first thing this morning, obviously crushed and devastated. He was very close to him and is feeling so lost. He left work early this morning, as soon as his collateral ( Read more... )