My Mom, a memoir

Hall and Oates 2017 Mom's...everyone has one. I had the best one. She was exactly what I needed and I like to think that I was exactly what she needed; it was symbiotic. She taught me more in living her life than she could teach me in parenting mine. She was my everything. ...and then... Continue Reading →

May 10, 2020 0

I remember it like it was yesterday…

What makes a moment the one that you can remember exactly where you were, who you were with and how you felt? It is the good and the bad moments that can bring you back but mostly it seems to be those that cause the most shock that drive us back. There have been a... Continue Reading →

September 21, 2019 0

Music and Mine

So my day starts with a song that brings me straight to the heart of what music meant to my Mom and I and my night ends with the annual Bush concert that me and mine I have come to enjoy as "our thing". I have literally had to move heaven and earth to make... Continue Reading →

August 17, 2019 1

Music and Mom

Well I am happy to report that this month has not been the monster that I had created in my head for months leading up to August. It is August 16th, two weeks before the anniversary of her passing and I am still surviving. It's funny in this life how we prepare for the worst... Continue Reading →

August 16, 2019 2

Moments

The moments...I live for them and I revel in them. One of the things that I have started doing in the last year is recognizing the moments. I can think of so many that have happened in the last year simply because I took a minute to stop and recognize them by saying out loud,... Continue Reading →