Tag Archive for dad

Daddy

      My father died seventeen years ago this week.       Every day after that anniversary will tip the scale, because he will have been gone from my life longer than he was in it. How strange a thought is that?       I lived seventeen years as his precious redheaded…

Their Sacrifice

      Today is Memorial Day (observed) here in the good ol’ US of A.       I come from a family full of military service. My husband was in the army, until he blew out his knees – oops. My father was in the Navy and served during Viet Nam. Two of…

Modest

      I have been thinking a lot about Daddy these past couple of days, as is customary around the anniversary of his birth and his death, and about how much I miss him.       How much I wish he were here to meet his precious little grandson, Malakai, and both of…