Virginia Slade
b. 11/26/1912
d. 10/05/2009

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It's Grandma's birthday.  I almost forgot again; it's been 12 years since she passed ( Read more... )

... for the thoughtful condolences you all left for me on my last post. When reading them all to my brother while we were on the road back from NC, I got choked up - an important moment I shared with my "new" bro ( Read more... )

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It's eerie. It feels a lot like it did when Princess Diana died suddenly back in 1997. The shocking news filtering out over TV news channels and pagers (remember those?), unbelievable at first and then all too real ( Read more... )

Last night "Another Part of Me" kept playing over and over in my head, and that's what he was to me ( Read more... )

Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies

Awwww. But she lived a long life, and she lived just long enough to actually get married (for real this time) in California. Yay!!

What a great, pioneering woman.

Ok, first Morgan Freeman gets in a car accident so serious he has to be airlifted to a trauma center in Memphis. Then Bernie Mac dies of pneumonia at 50.

And now Issac Hayes is found dead next to his treadmill?

Man, this is a tough week for famous black men.

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Now how's THAT for a dramatic subject line ( Read more... )