Posts from ‘May, 2011’

I had to go to the Department of Health and get another copy of my mother’s death certificate. It is a bit of a drive away and because it was raining heavily I decided to stay until the clerk could print off a copy and not wait for the mail service.  The office and reception [...]

I want to spend a few minutes remembering my father. He has been dead for nearly 32 years. Many of those years I was angry at him for dying at age 63, because he left me here to cope by myself. Today I’m thinking about him because I am knowing his emotions and how this [...]

Unfinished Business is a wonderful autobiography of a man’s life.  It is one of those new life stories that just picks one aspect of the life and then tucks in other pieces of the journey as necessary to complete the picture.  Lee Kravitz is working with the question of what are aspects of his life [...]

I start most wedding ceremonies with these words:  You have been given a gift; you only need to see it to believe it. Today I have the gift of sunshine, the gift of hanging laundry on the line, the gift of a great walk and the gift of a memory of a great discussion on [...]