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We lay my mother to rest in Franklinton in the family cemetery, near the dairy farm by my grandparents’ old house on Thigpen Road, near her older brother Dale, and his youngest son Carey, and right in line with my Mama Mae. Patsy’s home at last. I vowed to mom when she was alive that I would speak at her funeral service but I went to sleep on Tuesday night and woke Wednesday morning dreading…
December 02, 2009 Taurus (4/20-5/20) You’re having a very difficult time making up your mind about what you want to do next. You may find yourself taking long, aimless walks, or spending long periods of time standing still while contemplating your next move. The best thing you can do is get off to one side and let everyone else who’s in a rush go by you. Luckily, you should be much more decisive tomorrow — maybe…
Mom’s funeral is this morning and the reason it is happening so fast is it is the custom of Jews to bury within 24 hours because the grieving doesn’t begin until then. In my flights of fancy, T and I have thought we would open an animal shelter for donkeys and dogs and called it Patsy’s Pet Paradox. That’s just one thing we dream of. Here is mom with her brother Dale holding a little…
But who is not there to greet me is my mama. Agh. I flew in in the turbulence and rain and landed in New Orleans and thought this is the first time in my life that my mother wasn’t the first one I called when I landed, wasn’t who I had on my mind returning home, and at the same time she was all I had on my mind. We bury my mother according to…
I am in this NY hotel room just pouring over photographs of my mother. I’m glad they are all about joy. Valentines Day with Beth and Kerry – Tatjana is taking the photo: The Turkish party at the LaLa where Mom said Laurie dressed as a Turk reminded her of Barry, her lovah! Breakfast at Bakery Cafe with Yusuf, a real live hunky Turk Sitting on the front porch of the LaLa with her brothers…
Mother died today, or was it yesterday? It’s a few minutes passed midnight and I was awakened out of a sleeping pill haze in a hotel room in NY and told my mother had passed. All I could think of is how my mother told me that she thanks god every day for me, and I now find myself saying the same thing back to her. My mother was quite a character, a sort of…
I was speaking to a colleague the other day about living in New York and he said New York is a place where when things are going well they are hyper well and when things suck they super suck. I arrived in New York this afternoon on a wave of melancholy – seeing my mom on Sunday looking almost not human just sank my heart to the ground. This evening I wandered into at an…
Well fun is a stretch, but life is what you make of it right? I left New Orleans this morning just as the clouds were starting to form and arrived at JFK to cold and rain and a lousy cab driver. I’m standing there trying to open the car door in the rain and the cabbie is busy popping the trunk and not even looking. Then he tried to charge me about $20 over the…
We stayed for the third time in Ft. Morgan because the beach is sparsely populated despite a lot of development and the dogs are allowed on the beach to romp and play. This is the second time we rented from RelaxOnTheBeach that a friend had recommended to us a while back. I was just looking over Kevin’s website and he said something that has popped up in a lot of conversations I’ve been having about…
The key ingredients to a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday: 1) People you want to hang out with: 2) Beautiful weather and sunsets that amaze you: 3) Long walks on the beach with your trusted loved ones (canines included): 4) Seeing the happy faces on the ferry ride home means that we passed us a good time: