Author: Annie

I was following various links to their idiotic ends online at 6:00 this morning (up early – travel does that to me…) and ran across this video. It made me laugh – and I found myself dancing around the kitchen singing, “Pipe — wrench — fi-iiiiiiiight!” So even though I’m sad & troubled – even…

This has been the longest week of my life, and now I’m home. I hope I never have a week that feels this raw, rough, and physically challenging as this week has (but I know I will someday!) The drive home was long, and harder than many of my other drives. Almost 1,000 miles, and…

A magnificent sunset at the Chemical Plant on the banks of the Ohio An alleged cancer cluster has never looked so beautiful… Burn, baby, burn!

Here’s a sign I passed on the way to breakfast I’m having oatmeal at Bob Evans, but now it’s time to return to the house. If you don’t hear from me in a few days send reinforcements… Burn, baby, burn!

Will I ever not be tired? Okay, enough whining. Besides, look at my Grandma’s ring! I touch it and I think of her – I’m not a jewelry nut, but this is very affecting, very special to me. Today was a symphony of moving, packing, sorting, cleaning, with assorted mumbles and frustrated pleas to Jan,…

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted – I’ve just been laying low as far as the blogging goes, taking some time. I miss Jan. She was a lovely person – so kind – and, as I said at her service yesterday, one of the least judgemental people I’d ever met. Yesterday Jan was…

D. Janese “Jan” Tennant December 6, 1953 – October 8, 2008 It is with enormous sadness that I write to tell you that Jan passed from this world last evening around 9:45. Her sister-in-law, Joyce, and I were with her at the end. The love of her life, David, arrived just minutes after she passed…

I’m here – so’s Jan. But she’s been unconscious for over a day, her breathing is labored and her doctor feels she’ll be leaving us very soon. I’m in the same clothes I’ve been in for 2 days, so I’m going to shower and ask for a recliner in her room so I can just…

I hit the road as soon as Max was on his way to school, Gerry’d already left for the Mayo (where his tests were phenomenal, he’s doing beautifully!) and pretty much all day and into the evening it rained like a son-of-a-gun no matter where I was. Driving through Chicago wasn’t bad at all, really!…