Tag: Death
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Two years later
Two years later, I feel acceptance and serenity. When a loved one dies, there is no accounting for the nature and length of the grieving process. Nor is there a way to know for certain whether you have really moved beyond their death. Yet here I am two years after my mother’s death. When I […]
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Legacy Achieved
Exactly a month ago today, on Christmas Eve, my friend Frank Pierce passed away. I briefly eulogized Frank after I learned of his death. As I noted at the time, that entry hardly qualified as a proper tribute to him. Even though I knew Frank for sixteen years, no eulogy I could write would begin […]
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Thanks Frank
My friend Frank Pierce died unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. Frank is a friend who I initially “met” online. Meeting someone online nowadays is not a big deal, but around 1990 it was a weird thing to do or to even acknowledge. In those days, there was an Internet, but it was not accessible to the […]
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The Last of a Generation
My Uncle Dick died on Sunday. I cannot claim to have known him well. I visited his house at least once in recent years. He showed up at the occasional reunion that my mother’s side of the family put together. Uncle Dick lived to age 84, which is about average for my mother’s side of […]
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JonBenet Ramsey and the tip of the iceberg
If I have one axe to grind against our modern news media, it is how it can blow one individual story way out of proportion. Last week while traveling on business, I was watching CNN from my hotel room in Augusta, Maine. The story broke that John Mark Karr had been arrested in Thailand as […]
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In memoriam
Death is an unpleasant fact. At a certain age, it becomes a fact that is harder and harder to put out of mind. When you are seventy-something and living in a retirement community it can become pervasive. Such is the case at Riderwood, a retirement community in suburban Maryland where my widower father lives. The […]
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The honor never ends
There was no need to buy a Mother’s Day card this year. There was no mother to call on the phone today either. I am feeling a bit like Opus the penguin today. Maybe I should be spending $1.99 a minute on a Dial-a-Mom service. Nah, it would not be the same. Just as there […]
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Report from the Post-Mom Era
Everyone grieves uniquely when someone they love dies. My mother passed away nearly six months ago. Overall, I have adjusted quite well, as has my family. At least, that is how it appears. For all I know my father and siblings could each be going through their own painful grieving processes. If so, they are […]
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Requiem for a Feline
(Please enjoy this music while reading this entry. The music is part of the experience.) I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness – that […]
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Good Night Lauren
My friend Lisa was turned on to blogging by her teenage goddaughter Lauren. It was Lisa, who in turn, got me started on my blogging adventure in December 2002. My adventure has consumed 489 entries over the last three years or so and a minimum of six hours a week of my life. Yet it […]
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