For the fourth time in two years, our family has lost a loved one. My sweet mother-in-law Betty moved to her eternal home on January 23, 2022. She was in her 91st year of living, and she lived it fully. It happened quickly, and then, painfully slow. She was relatively well at her 90th birthday […]
My Tribute to Dad
My Dad passed from this life one year ago today, Dec 15, 2020. Sometimes it feels like it was years ago; sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. There are days I well up with missing him; there are days I’m glad he is free from the struggles of this life. Such is the nature […]
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A Birthday Letter to Dad
Happy birthday, Dad! How you loved birthdays and all celebrations! This will forever be a favorite picture of mine. You have been physically gone from my life since Dec. 15 of 2020, just 5 short months ago. After Mom passed in Jan. 2020, you were never the same. The cruelty of Covid then arrived and […]
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A Final Gift from Mom
As I mentioned in THIS POST, the Covid-19 lockdown has given me time to explore several bins of photographs in our garage. Through this clearing out, I have discovered facets of my mother’s life I never knew. Mom passed from this life fairly recently (Jan. 15, at the age of 99 and 1/2) and I’ve […]
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Looks Who’s 97! (a limerick)
Mom has a birthday today! (She arrived in July – not May) She still loves to read, Has no pets to feed With all she’s been through – she’s OK! Bones have been broken and healed Her lungs have been gunky – then cleared! She swallows with care, To make room for air God’s hold […]
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The Best Gift Dad Ever Gave Me
I’ve often heard that earthly fathers are our first impression of what God is like. If we have a devoted, loving dad, it’s easier to accept a benevolent, personal, divine creator. If our father is aloof, abusive, or absent, it’s more difficult to believe in a loving heavenly Father. In my life, I’ve seen that this […]
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A Bundle of Updates
January 2017 disappeared into a stubborn sinus infection and two hospital stays for the folks. We’re all on the mend now, thanks to doctors who are on the ball. I wonder if our docs ever see their kids. They seem to live at their offices and the hospital. I don’t know how they manage 50 […]
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Dying and Living
As many of you know, Mom was hospitalized last month for a GI bleed and pneumonia. She recovered fairly well, and went home. Two weeks later, she was back in the hospital for pneumonia again. Two days later, she was moved to ICU because her O2 dropped and she would not rouse. So, we began […]
