Our parish priest is very ill with pancreatic cancer. He is at home, but, declining rapidly.
He is well loved, and, it’s natural that people are concerned and upset. But, for some reason, every time I hear an update about him, I feel much like I did with my own mother. It’s actually involuntary, I don’t […]
Condolences to reader midlife mommy on her mother’s illness and death.
Wishing you and your family peace.
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Discover magazine has a regular column, “20 Things You Didn’t Know About…”, and, this one on death caught my eye.
I’ll bet you had no idea that there are at least 200 euphemisms for death. One of my favorites being, “Gone to Texas.”
That one kind of backfired many moons ago when I worked in […]
Good morning! I assume that, if you’re here, you taken my advice, and, stopped reading blogs long enough to get your estate documents together for your family in the event of your demise.
Good. You may stay here, now.
Anyway, my dad and I are back home after a whirlwind trip to Michigan this weekend due to […]
My uncle isn’t expected to live much longer, so, I will be going there with my father in the morning.
We have a fun filled adventure of flights, car rentals, and, driving ahead of us, not to mention waiting at the hospital, I’ll keep you posted.
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My father’s step mother died today. She was 96.
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I never told you a lot about my mother’s death, but, actually, it was pretty amazing, as far as these things go, and, since the b5 Media Family and Relationships Channel’s Blog Carnival theme is “love”, I figured this was as good of a time as any to tell you about it.
She was very ill […]
At my friend’s father’s (that sure was a lot of possesives, there) funeral the other day, I sat with a guy I kind of know, we have kids in the same class at school. He was a friend of the family, and, I discovered from reading the program that his father was a pallbearer. His […]
I’ve tried several times to write about the first holiday season without my mother. But, for some reason, the words don’t come out when I sit down to type. It’s not that I’m overcome with grief or anything, it’s just that it’s all so weird to have to find a new “rhythm” if you will.
It’s […]
With the holiday season coming up quickly, I know that this time of year might be hard since my mother died.
I have been thinking about the approaching season in vague terms, making a mental note to put “deal emotionally with holidays”, but, I haven’t really done much else.
Imagine my surprise when, Halloween, the questionable member […]
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