I wake up at my normal time today, Memorial Day. It’s just a few minutes after sunrise. My first thought this morning, like every morning is Shayna. I don’t know how long this will go on. Will it ever not be the first thing on my mind? Do I want it to not be? I […]
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Day 343- Wine From a Paper Cup
It’s Memorial Day weekend and it’s graduation weekend for several local high schools. We have been invited to three parties today. The first is from 3-6, the second from 4-until and the third from 5-until. Kayla attends the first and third with us. The first is a graduation party, the last a Memorial Day party. […]
Day 342- Synchronicity Abounds
Synchronicity in life is something I didn’t pay any attention to until I started looking for signs from Shayna. Now that I am more open to synchronicity, I am finding it more and more. I am reading a book about a guy who died and how his peers began looking for synchronistic occurrences and finding […]
Day 341- Where Are All Of The Fathers?
Something that I have noticed since being involved in so many grief groups and listening to the stories of grieving parents in various interviews and reading their stories in books is a profound absence of fathers. This is what is known as anecdotal evidence. This is only my experience. It is statistically insignificant, but it […]
Day 340- Houston We Have A Problem
Today I attend the wake of a friend’s stepfather. He died suddenly and unexpectedly in just a couple of days. He was the one who was the caregiver taking care of her ailing mother. No one expected him to be the one to be gone today, but here it is. When we think we have […]
Day 339- Soon I’ll Be 60 Years Old
In the song “Once I Was 7 Years Old” Lukas Graham goes from reflecting on the ages of 7, 11 and 20 in his past to contemplating 30 and 60 in his not too distant future. As a man in his 20s maybe he doesn’t realize just how well this four minute song so succinctly […]
Day 338- Today I’m 55
55 years old. Wow. There was a time when that would have sounded ancient to me. 40 is a distant memory now. That was the most difficult birthday, when I officially realized I was “old”. I went through major changes at 40. 50 wasn’t tough at all. I just wanted to be around long enough […]
Day 337- Homeward Bound
I wake up this morning with the sun beaming through the window above my head at 5:15. There’s no doubt where I am, Phoenix. Tonight, if all goes to plan, I will lay my head down in West Chester, OH- 1,800 miles away. No matter how many times I do this, it fascinates me every […]
Day 336- Shayna Shows Up Again
Today is Sunday. One more day of vacation left. Ernie Jackson is a board member of Helping Parents Heal. He and his wife Kristine have invited us to attend church with them and to have brunch afterwards. Coincidentally, they attend a Unity church. We have been going to Unity since last July or August. I […]
Day 335- Cousin Karl and Cameron
This has been a most unusual vacation. Thanks to the magic of social media, I have several friends in Phoenix I have never met. I feel like we could move to Phoenix tomorrow and have no issues with finding people to hang out with. Facebook has also brought me back in touch with my second […]