Remembrances
Stranger than fiction
She doesn’t pay attention to much during the short ride to school from her house. She focuses on the radio, which is playing Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know”. She feels like it is her anthem, even though she knows her love is unrequited. Her mother has no idea of the boy she adores. After she told the entire neighborhood about her kindergarten crush, Danny, the girl stopped sharing…
Gone away
Six years ago, my grandfather died. He spent the last four and a half years of his life missing his wife. He visited the mausoleum, two miles from where they lived, at least twice a day.
He died five days before his 73rd birthday. His funeral was actually the day of his birthday.
In the next month, [...]
Veintiuno: Without you
My grandmother has been dead for a decade.
I had a horrible time of it when it happened. She had lung cancer, most likely due to a lifelong smoking habit she had quit nine years prior to diagnosis. I remember a lot of cigarette smoke from my childhood. My grandfather was once a four-pack-a-day smoker, in [...]
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
I think I’ve posted the above image every year on this day since it happened. It still resonates, and so I’m doing it again.
Every year, I sit in front of the television and relive the events of six years ago. Out of force of habit, I checked the guide and programmed the TiFaux to tape [...]
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