Dad-
I can’t believe it has already been two years. This past weekend was tough but not impossible. The family got together and celebrated your life. Jason came up with Kate and his two sons Jesse and Casey, and I traveled up with Kelly and Madeline. The one positive of you not being there was that you would have had a mental breakdown with three children under ...<< MORE >>
Happy Father’s Day dad. I haven’t submitted a blog in several months, I thought that I didn’t have anything to say. Sometimes the best way to write something is to just start….so here I go. In two weeks I will be celebrating my first father’s day. It comes with mixed emotion because I wish that I could have celebrated at least one with ...<< MORE >>
Happy Birthday Dad, this month you would have turned 75. After I wrote your age I thought that maybe I was being greedy, after all you did have 74 years on this earth. But I quickly changed my mind because I thought of how much you have already missed in the short time you have been gone. Let’s see…Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Jason’s Birthday, the house we were going to rent ...<< MORE >>
When is it appropriate to edit someone who has passed out of your cell phone? I had a friend from college who died four years ago and I removed it just recently. And my dad’s house key? Imagine a key that he used for 30 years, a key that got him inside to his favorite place in the world, a key that is now an extra key to the house.<< MORE >>
Everyone has one mental image of someone in their lives that is important to them. My mental image of my dad is from back when he taught me how to shave. My dad used to get out of the shower and put on boxers and black socks rolled all the way up to his knees. When he shaved he would be humming or singing feeling like ...<< MORE >>