Years That Answer

Well, that was rough, going to a funeral for a 32 year old man. Death is always hard, but when a young person with so much to live for dies,...

I've been sick with a sinus infection all week. I called the doctor on Monday, but couldn't get an appointment so they set me up wit...

Any  effort to connect and console a person undergoing grief is amazingly helpful. Social media now allows for immediacy and increased conta...

So often when you lose someone to an untimely death you ask why? Right now I'm screaming it from the mountain top. Tom and I lost one of...

The last Grandma story (for now): Grandma was a fundamentalist Protestant and a Pentecostal charismatic who talked in tongues when the spi...

I just got back from a trip to Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan to see family. The reason for the trip was to attend a memorial event ...

Death is relentless. Last week a cousin died at 66 from cancer. This week my son-in-law's stepfather died in his sleep. He was 76 and ve...

The Baby Sister Chronicles: Part II 😎 My mother's Parkinson's Disease continued to progress. A couple years after the delir...

M y shingles are almost gone .  However, when it rains it pours. Buddy, our c at, died the other day . Although he had been really, really...

W e made a whirlwind trip to Upstate NY in mid-May . It was the first time we went back since moving to Florida in March 2014. We arrived l...

A year ago this week I left Central Florida to go to Northern Indiana to help my siblings manage my mother's death. I spent a week li...

My last post, about losing our gardenia, made me think about loss again. It is an interesting concept, loss.  I am going to chew on this fo...

I get daily updates from History, a website for TV’s History channel.  A recent “This Day in History” post concerned the death of Gram Parso...

Hey, wait a minute!  Do you remember last time when I said there were no further incidents at the nursing home?  I forgot something. This ...

My mother passed away quite peacefully earlier this week surrounded by 4 of her 5 living children and a wonderful Hospice nurse.  It ...

I am sad to say that my mother is dying. I flew to Northern Indiana early Wednesday morning to be with her and help my siblings care ...