I have a box that I keep cards in. I save birthday cards, Christmas ones...sometimes I just hold onto the ones that are pretty so I can recycle them. I got to thinking yesterday about one that Gretchen had given me on my birthday. Not as a birthday card, mind you, but an encouragement one. I couldn't find it in the box. I got a little freaked and ( Read more... )

The more time that passes since the accident, the more the events of the past few weeks seem so unreal. The longer things go on, the more that life returns to "normal", the more I feel like it might have just been a fscked up dream, that I might see Gretchen log in to instant messenger, or I think that I may have heard her in the background over a ( Read more... )

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I've been messing things up here at work all week. It's like my brain is offline and I'm just wandering through the world in a fog ( Read more... )

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I'd like to have everyone who knew Gretchen and is able to join us come out to Side Street/The Red Bar this Saturday evening around 7:00pm. They are both two halves of the same building. The building is located at the rear end of the giant parking lot in Overton Square, right near Theaterworks, and the place where Matt and Mandi had their wedding ( Read more... )

I don't make friends easily. I even more rarely find good friends. I had found that in Gretchen in a very short time. Which, really amazes even me, since I typically take a while to open up to anyone. She managed to pick that outta me with ease and grace and a quick smile. And maybe cooking a dinner or two. She was easy to talk to, confide in, and ( Read more... )

The memorial service will be in the Wilson chapel at Christ United Methodist Church. So.. now you know where to go ( Read more... )

Dee emailed me again. They want to get money together to get a Humane Society Plaque. See below ( Read more... )

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