Souvenirs

Souvenirs

Haldeman/Conyers burial/memorial celebration

When it came time, I knew I wanted to bury Tim's ashes at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery. I didn't know when - there were a...

Souvenirs

The one about a triple-header funeral

Posted By Lorena

How do you inter your loved ones when you don't have a family cemetery, strong ties to a particular religion, you don't have children who...

Souvenirs

Why am I writing all this stuff about Tim, anyway?

Posted By Lorena

If y'all haven't already been asking yourselves why it is exactly that I'm rehashing all of this, why I'm rewriting it, tomorrow's post will really...

Souvenirs

Louder, for the people in the back

Posted By Lorena

Up and down this road I goSkippin' and dodgin'From a 44 Facebook is often an echo chamber; because you can curate the list of who...

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When loss sneaks in and makes a home in your heart

Posted By Lorena

I want to make sweeping statements like, "the first time you lose someone you love, it teaches you how to lose everyone else" or "the...

Souvenirs

Well, that wrecked my head

Posted By Lorena

Warning: this is a sad story about a sad animal and spoilers, it didn't live. If that sort of thing shatters your heart into a...

Souvenirs

A Long December

Posted By Lorena

Today would have been my dad's 77th birthday. He died two weeks after his 60th. It used to be, growing up, Bill's birthday, then a...

Souvenirs

You just call out my name

Posted By Lorena

Do you have siblings? I don't. I'm an only child (not for lack of my parents trying, mom, I'm sorry about your loss). I don't...

Souvenirs

The Practicality of Preparing

Posted By Lorena

The last few months, I've been helping my aunt and uncle decide what to do with their manuscripts, correspondence, papers, and library. They're not planning...

Souvenirs

Some of it’s magic, and some of it’s tragic

Posted By Lorena

He went to Paris Looking for answers To questions that bothered him so The nurses on this floor aren't as attentive as on the previous...

Souvenirs

On apologizing and making amends

Posted By Lorena

"Oh, laws," you're thinking. "She doesn't write forever and then she gives us one with song lyrics... it's always a hard thoughtful one when there...

Souvenirs

When you want to punch a holiday in the throat

Posted By Lorena

Dear Goddamn Diary; I don't know why this year in particular - what makes this year any different than the last sixteen - but I'm...

That Christmas movie, with that guy who’s the vampire

Become the type of person you’d admire

March 11, 2022

March 10(-11), 2022

Haldeman/Conyers burial/memorial celebration

The one about a triple-header funeral

Why am I writing all this stuff about Tim, anyway?

Louder, for the people in the back

When loss sneaks in and makes a home in your heart

Well, that wrecked my head

A Long December

You just call out my name

The Practicality of Preparing

Some of it’s magic, and some of it’s tragic

On apologizing and making amends

When you want to punch a holiday in the throat

A Day in the Life

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