My friend Dorien Grey helped shape part of today’s post. He doesn’t know it, though, so shhhhh. You’ll understand how in a bit. For now, I realized the reason I’ve been having such a difficult time getting back into blog writing is due to post-holiday blues. I love the holidays. I’m ‘that annoying guy’ who […]
What We Leave Behind II: The Postcards
I couldn’t resist. I thought about it and thought about it after Monday’s blog post and I finally decided to throw caution to the wind, borrow the postcards from my father-in-law’s nightstand for a few hours and type them up. They meant something to him for him to have kept them in such good condition […]
What We Leave Behind
I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time at my father-in-law’s house cleaning, sorting, rearranging, playing Tetris with the furniture and generally making myself useful. That’s pretty easy to do since if I wasn’t doing it, it wouldn’t get done. I consider it my full-time job once dad leaves for the day. Fortunately, the hubby […]
Wanted: Outback Steakhouse in the Afterlife
I’m not a good patient. Never have been and never will be. I used to find more reasons to get out of bed while sick when I was growing up than my mother did for reasons why I should stay in it. Ironically, when I wanted to stay in bed is exactly the time she […]
A Voice in the Present Becomes a Voice in the Past
“And how we face death is at least as important as how we face life, wouldn’t you say?” (James T. Kirk) I was perhaps twelve the last time I saw someone suffering and close to death. I didn’t understand it from a personal aspect, only technically that my grandfather was hallucinating most of the day […]
The Waiting Game
Sunday, March 17, 2013. Have you ever watched someone slipping away? I haven’t. I’m a total newbie at this, which is odd considering my real age and not my fake age. Things tend to play out like scenes from movies and television programs we’ve been watching for years. The difference is those of us here […]
The Inability To Accept Giving Up
There is an unfortunate consensus between my husband, brother-in-law and me that my father-in-law-who-doesn’t-know-he’s-my-father-in-law may be giving us less-than-subtle hints that he’s either giving up or given up. It’s something that’s been on our minds the last couple of days, only none of us knew the other was thinking it nor did we want to […]
Validation…And My Brother-in-Law Dates Psychos
I wasn’t someone who needed to hear how good I was doing at something during my formative years. I knew what I was good at and I knew what I was horrific at. Gym? Art? Holding my pencil or fork the accepted way? Horrific. But I knew I was good at other things, especially Atari, […]
Adorable Fluffy Buns and the Friday Night Phone Call
Have you ever had an unusual response to medication? I have. Tylenol IV gives me headaches, morphine makes me warm and tingly, and Entex mentally turns me into a zombie…the Romero kind, not the running, jumping, climbing trees kind movie/TV audiences love that couldn’t possibly exist. The reason I ask is because my father-in-law who […]
Sucker Punch
I remember a feeling of panic when I’d get a bad grade in school. I knew it was coming, but it still brought on panic. And, of course, I remember receiving a 35% grade on an exam, panicking, only to find out the letter grade associated with it was a B-. It was a punch […]
