Reading Time: 6 minutes(It will still happen.) “Honey I’m not going to be around much longer. I just want you to know.” This was the first time a grown-up acknowledged death
Reading Time: 5 minutesIsn’t it wonderful and heart breaking that a voice is so internally memorable long after one has passed on?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is it still Tuesday? I’ve experienced long days but these are long in the way you sorely wish they were not. Loooong. Unrestful in body, mind or
Reading Time: 8 minutesI have undeniably avoided writing this part of the story with seeming inability to put fingers to keyboard. I write amidst not wanting to write… amidst this… soft,
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe plan was to visit at Christmas time. That had been the plan since I’d left Mom from the summer visit. The visit where everything changed. The visit
Reading Time: 5 minutesDon’t you think the word “grieving” is onomatopoetic? What-a-word. Grieving. GRRRREEEEIIIIIVVVVVIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGG. I mean just grab a box of tissues (or a hand towel), take a seat on the
Reading Time: 6 minutesI grew up in a household with all the “feels” in tact and firing rapidly. A lot of ups and downs. Draaaammmmaa dahlink. This was intensified by alcohol.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had never meant for this blog to be about my mother. But we go where the muse leads us so there it is. She’s taken a turn.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the last week it seems Mom has been doing pretty well. And that makes me so happy. It almost makes me not worry. Not sure that will
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve by now heard a lot about Mom. The most recent update is that she is slowing down. Stuttering. Slurring words. And it’s noticeable. I went three days