Tag Archive for memories

For Shame!

      I am rather ashamed to admit that it has been over a year since I bothered to blog here. Since I bothered to update Rhiallis’ story or talk about gaming or babble about my life.       No Venna photos. No stories about Mark singing about strawberries in the pooper (don’t…

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…

Nine-Eleven

      This year, I feel unequal to the task of reflecting again on the pain and hope and terror and despair and patriotism and brotherly love and… and… everything. I don’t know why. I am not in a place in my life where looking back is healthy for me. Only forward. Ever onward.…

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…