Look silly now, and smile! It’s not our best picture. It’s a good one though. Christmas, sometime in the mid-90’s at the old house. Our best picture together is around somewhere. I was angry that I could not find it. Then I was grateful knowing it exists in one of the digital subfolders I have. […]
Grief is an ingredient of our existence. An ingredient we would rather never use in a recipe of mixed emotions. We are stuck with it. Even with good coping skills, it can be intolerably unbearable. In letting our sweet boy Leo go, grief has returned. It’s a wave crashing over without warning. It’s a sudden […]
It was usually happening on Sundays. The phone would ring, I would see the number and prepare to settle in for a slightly long conversation. It would be only slightly long if for some reason I might feel it was going on too long. “Hello! How are You?” Over the last few months of his […]
Over the course of a few days recently I felt very rough about my Dad’s passing. I still sometimes expect the phone to ring and for him to be at the other end. Grief can be a horrid thing. It can attach your senses when you least expect it. Whether triggered by something you see […]
Dann Alexander 