I'm trying to remember his voice. I can't.

The media covered the protest in Washington but they didn't cover the hundreds upon hundreds of men, women and children that showed up to protect the memorial and stand for America. Our soldiers fight for their freedom of speech - it's really too bad that they choose to use it to speak poorly about the people helping to guarantee it.

The OTHER ( Read more... )

It's as if I've compartmentalized the pain about different things with different people so that not everybody has to deal with it all. Or maybe so that not everybody knows how many little compartments of pain there are. The strangest / worst thing is that the two people up here that I would normally go to are the least well informed (they totally ( Read more... )

Monday, November 13, 2006
11am - 11pm

Sparkies American Grill
2868 W. Highland Rd
Highland, MIWe're raising money for a memorial to be put up in White Lake, MI for Alex ( Read more... )

Yesterday it was time to do some serious cleaning - I've been a bit ... busy .... since Alex's passing. The first chore was to go through the box of his personal stuff that has been sitting in my room for the last couple of months. I was doing really well staying detached and pretending that I was just going through some random box of stuff. ( Read more... )

The last few days have been hard. We're coming up on the 3 month mark and the numbness is wearing off. Also, my plan to keep myself so busy that I don't have to think about it all the time is slowing down - it's hard to keep going at that pace while not sleeping well ( Read more... )

You may have noticed that the flag is at half staff again today just like it was last Friday. This time for a solider in Lake Orion, last Friday for a solider in Swartz Creek ( Read more... )

The background on my computer is a picture of Michelle and I with the 4 girls we became the closest with while in Europe - Sonya, Becky, Renae and Amber. We are SO happy in that picture and mostly carefree ( Read more... )

The funeral is tomorrow morning.

I'm not ready to say good-bye.

I'm so exhausted but not sleepy if that makes any sense at all. It's only been 3 days but it feels like we've been doing this for 2 weeks. We sleep for 3-4 hours, get up, wander around, drink coffee, pretend that we're going to eat but most of the time as soon as we fix something to eat it no longer holds any appeal. And then we meet with people ( Read more... )