Eight years
It's now been eight years since my father was killed. I still miss him. As I noted the other day,...
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Unstrung Heroes
I first saw the 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes in late 1996, and I liked it a lot. I bought it...
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...
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...
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...
Self-reliant kids
An exchange between Karen and Jeremiah reminded me of this line: You bring up your children to be self-reliant and...
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...
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...
Childcare
Mary Anne just handed Anand a chunk of bread or something. As she left the room, she said to me:...
Happy Mother’s Day!
A lot of my friends are mothers these days. To all of you who are, or have been, or expect...
My brother’s 25 Things list
A month ago, my brother Jay posted his own 25 Things list, in two parts: part 1, part 2. Good...