Recently passed the anniversary of my father’s death. And like I’ve seen several people do in the last few days, I was tempted to post a picture of my father on Facebook or somewhere, as a memorial. But very quickly I decided I don’t want to celebrate someone’s death… I’d Continue Reading
My father died on January 5. It’s a horrible thing to contemplate. It’s a macabre thing to discuss with the doctors. And it is without a doubt, the worst feeling I’ve ever had, when it finally happened. And yet I’ve had very little obvious reaction. I cried the morning it Continue Reading
David “Chunky” Calder June 1, 1940–January 5, 2010
My uncle is dying. He’s a good man. I’ve often said he’s the white sheep of the family. But I don’t really have much I want to say about that here. It sounds like he’s out of it at least as much as he’s coherent. I don’t know which side Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking the last few days about hospitals and doctors and mortality and all that. It kind of freaked me out, and surprised me when I realized last night that in my core family of 4 people, 3 of us had unrelated life-threatening conditions in the last six months. Continue Reading
I no longer have a ten foot long hole in my wall. So I got that going for me. (Plumbing that doesn’t leak: Good. Cat locked in bathroom for 3 days: Bad. Seeing the debris from the last time the wall was opened lazily dumped in the space behind the Continue Reading
I am… …really disturbed. There’s a bad series of events rising. The news of the past week has been depressing enough. But reading the paper today casts a pall over everything. Article One: Supreme Court Chief Justice Reinquist died last night. This man held on with tooth and nail, to Continue Reading