Hey mom, Well a whole year has gone by since your passing. Today marks the last first we have to experience without you. A year without seeing you, hugging you or talking with you seems like an impossible task and yet that is exactly what has happened. I wish me from a year ago could…
First Birthday, First Christmas, First Be Bald and Be Free Day, First Anniversary of my Father’s Passing; one round of firsts’ is complete. In 5 more months my second round will be done. Gosh it is hard to believe that it has been a year since my father died. Many times over the last year…
It has been a while since I last wrote about my parents. While the intention was to keep writing, I found myself wanting to gain distance from the memories and thoughts about my parents. Thinking of them is still painful, an unhealed wound that I would like to pretend doesn’t exist. That has proven impossible…
As early as I can remember, my father has watched football on television (as long as there was a station showing the game). To my knowledge he never saw a game in person, but that didn’t matter to him. He would say that you get a much better view of the game at home. Especially…
Today I was talking with friends and was asked how things have been going. I mentioned that while everything has been pretty good, I still feel like a guest in my parent’s house. Thinking about it more, I realize that isn’t exactly how I mean it to sound, but I don’t have the right words…
One of my favorite days in 2014 was the day this picture was taken. May 6 was a gorgeous day and the perfect day for a road trip. On mom’s bucket list was to visit the grave sites of her parents and her sister Dorthy. Her sister had passed away 30 years earlier and in…
In previous posts I had been critical of my father and while I think there is still some merit to the issues I had with the man, I was being pretty unfair to him. I described by father a while back as a good man but a terrible father. I realized that is a harsh…
What a wild ride this year has been. Although my parent’s passing was an obvious low point, there were some really good times this year. Here is a list of some of the highlights from this year: I started this blog in February which allowed me to keep family and friends abreast of my parents…
On this eve of Christmas, I thought I would talk about what Christmas has meant to me, what it means now and what I hope it will mean in the future. I will make another post after this one that will be a story I wrote for my parents two years ago for Christmas. Christmas…
I haven’t had the will to write in quite a while now. I have been lost and unable to find my pen. While I still have not found that metaphorical pen, I happen to have stumbled on a piece of chalk that I will use to get out some thoughts. I had one of the…