Father’s Day was a tough one. For the last 19 years I have loved Father’s Day. Since my first one with Kayla before she could speak and Tywana gave me cuff links from Kayla and I held her on the deck in Lexington as Tywana recorded me on video. Then for the last 15 having […]
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Day 363- Turn Another Page
Today as I return from my walk I see a moving van in front of our next door neighbor’s house. The husband is an executive with P&G. They moved in ten years ago. We didn’t expect them to be here long as they had moved several times before with P&G and he is on the […]
Day 362- Anxious Days
The countdown to the anniversary of Shayna’s passing continues. It’s just a few days away now. I don’t think I’ve been as cognizant of a particular date for as long as I have been of this one since I was a kid and was counting down the days to Christmas. I know nothing magical will […]
Day 361- Is Your Refrigerator Running?
I wake up this morning a little after 6. The sun is coming up and I’m not quite fully awake when I hear the all too familiar alarm on our refrigerator. It’s a very quiet intermittent beep. There are two reasons it alarms. Either the door is open or the temperature is higher than the […]
Day 360- How Do I Do This?
Today I go to the tattoo shop to get a tattoo commemorating my family. My first tattoo immortalized Shayna on my body- well as immortal as this body is. This tattoo is for the four of us. I get the design done and the guy starts working on me. This is the point where we […]
Day 359- Extremism
Today I made the mistake of reengaging in the political debate that follows every mass shooting done by a Muslim. That debate specifically involves whether Islam is the problem or guns are the problem. And it seems we have to take an either/or position, something I am not good at, purposely. Coincidentally, this morning I […]
Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti, near-death experience science counters grief |319|
Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti, near-death experience science counters grief |319| This is the shortest Skeptiko episode I’ve heard at just under 40 minutes, but it might be the best. After Shayna passed, Tywana and I discovered the traditional grief counseling wasn’t going to do it for us. Elizabeth Kubler Ross’ Five Stages of Dying (which have […]
Day 358- Certainty
Since the murders at Pulse in Orlando, we’ve been having the same debate we always have after a big mass shooting. We’ve had 176 mass shootings just this year, more than there have been days in the year. A mass shooting is defined as a shooting with four or more victims injured or killed. The […]
Day 357- Biggest Mass Shooting Murder In American History
This morning I wake up to a glorious sunrise and the temperature near 80 even before 8 am. I glance at my phone and I see 20 people have been executed in a nightclub in Orlando. Before I get to church the number is revised to 50. Here we go again. I am proud of […]
Day 356- Perfect Moment
This morning I was up at sunrise. There is something about the light at the beginning of rhe day I find to be almost magical. A few minutes after sunrise I was out for my five mile walk. This evening we went to a graduation party and I excused myself early for a little alone […]