Today’s birthdays: Traces and echoes
Today would've been my father's 73rd birthday. It's also the 32nd anniversary of my mother's death. I'm doing okay today...
Archive for Death
Marcy’s birthday
My mother would've been 69 years old today. So far I've been mostly okay, but with a couple of gusts...
Seven years
It seems hard to believe that it's been seven years since my father was killed. (Yes, I know the right-side...
Remembering Peter and Marcy
Today would have been my father's 72nd birthday. It's also the 31st anniversary of my mother's death. I haven't been...
Marcy’s birthday
Today would have been my mother's sixty-eighth birthday. (Sixty-eight? Really? She was only thirty-seven when she died; it's really hard...
R.I.P., Joanna Russ
I was very sorry to hear the other day that Joanna Russ had died. I've been waiting to post until...
Home
Been off in Florida the past few days, helping Annie F after her mother's unexpected death. Been mostly offline, and...
Six years
My father was killed six years ago today. Anniversaries of deaths are often difficult for me, but I'm mostly doing...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today was the twelfth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in hundreds of cities all over the world. A couple dozen...
Missing parents
Today would have been my father's 71st birthday. It's also the 30th anniversary of my mother's death. I was mostly...
Marcy’s birthday
Today my mother would have been sixty-seven years old. I'm not sure I can really imagine her at sixty-seven. She...
R.I.P., Charles Cala
I wasn't on Facebook much last week, and so I missed various people posting about the fact that our friend...