I just found the announcement we were going to post on Facebook in March 2017. I think we both felt that the time was never right: Rick is pretty private when it comes to talking about personal issues on FB, but I have to announce something major. The truth is, after his sudden “sodium issues”…
Category: Memories
Pain Menu
Pain menu Which memory shall I select? What will bring on the tears? You at the end? Hooked to monitors, breathing by machine? You at the beginning? Our first date? Our first kiss? Or the many options from the 21 years in between? The memory selection is endless. The choices are triggered with little to…
We did everything together
We did everything together. I sit here mourning your death, and I think, who would understand this pain? We did everything together. Since you retired in 2011, you’d drive me to work in the morning, pick me up and take me to lunch, then pick me up and take me home. On Fridays, I worked…
Once You Got the Death Sentence
Once you got the death sentence, you said there was nothing we could do about it. But you didn’t die that Christmas, and you didn’t die that spring. And we got Christmas with the family. And we got spring in Florida. And – in between hospital visits – we got summer at home. We got…
Our House
This is our house. You planted these ficas in the front yard. You built these wooden pillars to cover the old colonial ones. You carried this bench to the front porch – the one that we brought from our home in Maryland. You cut this grass. You put in the new front door, and put…