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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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
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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
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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
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Tags: dad, memories, time · Posted in: family
Easter, 2010
April 4, 2010
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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
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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
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Not posted on September 20, or since.
It’s been a little over a month since I lost Dad. The world is different, I am different, I am struggling, I am succeeding. Not writing all this time has been strange, but with the move to the new apartment and the fact that work is getting busier, it was easy to set it aside. [...]
October 21, 2009
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A legacy of laughter.
One night last week when I was visiting my Dad in the convalescent center where he is living out his last days, a young lady brought in his dinner on a tray. It looked about like usual – cafeteria-style tray, a small glass of water, a tiny carton of milk, utensils, a cup of Jello, [...]
September 13, 2009
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Tags: cancer, dad, laughter, vocation · Posted in: faith, family
A moment of levity!
They do happen! If I, or anyone in my family, ever lost our sense of humor, it would be a loss as keenly felt as that of a limb. Yesterday I went to visit Dad after work, as per usual. When I arrived, he was holding…mattress ads. Yes, my father, laying in the hospital, dying [...]
September 2, 2009
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