He Chose Me

By |2024-11-27T09:45:19-06:00November 27, 2024|

Aren't dogs the best? A memory popped this morning on my personal Facebook feed from 2017. This would have been only six weeks after we adopted Coconut and I forgot all about this incident. I was rushing upstairs in my bedroom slippers and tripped up the steps. In my defense, that was the first and last year I actually had slippers. They seemed the [...]

A Kind Man

By |2024-11-13T08:50:03-06:00November 13, 2024|

Today is World Kindness Day and today is Grandpa's second heavenly birthday in heaven. Today is a big day because if he had not moved to heaven, we'd be celebrating his birthday with 100 candles. Okay, that might cause a fire, but there would be a celebration for sure because 100 is a big birthday. When you divorce you often find yourself drifting away [...]

Better in the Sun

By |2024-11-04T08:08:02-06:00November 4, 2024|

Last Sunday the weather was sunny and so Gary and Coconut and I took a short road trip to the northwest suburbs of Chicago to see my sister-in-law. I was once married to her brother. For a time after the divorce talking to him was done primarily through our lawyers which is an expensive way to communicate. We moved on to letters in the [...]

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