Archive for the ‘family’ Category
My Man Pink
It’s been another year, and I was thinking it would be a good time to share another Dad story. I got kind of caught up inside my own brain for a while, thinking of recent changes in my life, the way Dad’s memory influences me and affects me still. I’ve been doing a lot of [...]
September 19, 2012
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Jen · 
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Tags: dad, history, humor · Posted in: family
Stories to tell you.
There’s a story I’d like to tell you. Once there was a woman who met a man, and they got married the way you’re supposed to, and they had a kid the way you’re supposed to. Not much else went the way it was supposed to go, though. The ending was bad, I mean the [...]
November 14, 2011
· Jen · 6 Comments
Tags: loss, love, stories · Posted in: family
Rising up.
It rises up, the grief. It comes up at happy times, and perversely stays away at sad ones. It wants to defy anticipation. “Here is a day I will feel it,” I’ll think, and then it will not appear, only to come up at another time. When it is fresh, it doesn’t have to rise [...]
September 19, 2011
· Jen · 6 Comments
Tags: dad, grief, love · Posted in: family
Memories
Last night when I got home after a nice evening out, I sat down in front of the TV for a little while. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was on one of the cable channels, and I was sucked in easily enough. It was near the end of the movie, [...]
June 19, 2011
· Jen · 2 Comments
Tags: dad, photos · Posted in: family
No answers here.
Religion has always been a large part of my family life. My father was ordained a deacon in the Roman Catholic church in 1983, when I was eleven years old. He and my mother spent the three years prior to that attending seminary several nights a week, and before they ever made that decision they [...]
March 4, 2011
· Jen · 10 Comments
Tags: fate, living out loud · Posted in: faith, family
A year, more or less
If I’m remembering correctly, we got our first VCR in 1983. Thanks to the diligence (and good guesswork) of my brother, we chose correctly in the VHS vs. Beta showdown. With the clunky machine in the back of the car as we drove home from Sears, we stopped at one of the first video-rental stores [...]
September 19, 2010
· Jen · 8 Comments
Tags: dad, memories, time · Posted in: family
Caesura.
I fear I have been remiss in posting here, not for lack of anything to say, but more for lack of time to put it all into words. Life feels busy to me, and fulfilling, if not without frustration – overall, it feels good, and whole. But I’ve felt it coming for a while now. [...]
May 9, 2010
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Tags: family, Friends, vacation · Posted in: family
Token.
Last weekend I traveled to Alliance, Ohio with my mother, to visit my aunt and uncle. It was a good weekend, if sometimes an emotional one. It was the first time we had seen them since Dad’s funeral – my father’s sister and her husband traveled down here to meet up for a hard visit. [...]
April 13, 2010
· Jen · 6 Comments
Tags: family · Posted in: family
November 29, 2009
Today would have been my father’s 70th birthday. We always celebrated his birthday on Thanksgiving (his favorite holiday), adding an apple pie (his favorite, that he taught me to bake) to the pumpkin pies and adding an extra layer to the festivities. This year, the family spent Thanksgiving together quietly, peacefully, with a different layer [...]
November 29, 2009
· Jen · 5 Comments
Tags: birthday, dad · Posted in: family
The Feast of All Souls
In 1971 my mother and father and brother took a trip to England. My brother was seven years old at the time and it was the first really big vacation they’d ever taken together. Sometime before they left on that trip, someone advised them that when they took pictures, they should have them developed as [...]
November 2, 2009
· Jen · 4 Comments
Tags: dad, stories · Posted in: family
