It’s been a week of such mixed emotions, it’s hard to reflect on anything without breaking into tears or laughter. Emotionally it’s been one of my hardest weeks since 9/11, even harder than the heartbreak of Gerry’s diagnosis last year (when we were in a kind of trauma-numbness). Some of the emotions I’ve felt make…
Wrench Dancing
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…
Finally Home!
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…
Sunset At The Chemical Plant
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!
Priorities
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!
Exhausted
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,…
Shoveling
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…
…and gone.
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…
Here
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…