Monthly Archives: September 2005

There was a recent thread on Widownet about the loss of our person to share important daily events with.  I’ve talked about this before and I was thinking about it now driving from work.  Part of being married is sharing … Continue reading →

Halley talks about cell phone manners (I can’t spell etiquette) and mentions the concept that some day phone booths will become extinct and kids won’t understand phone booths like they don’t understand LP’s and 45’s. In my next sweep of … Continue reading →

Gary Baseman: “A Moment Ago, Everything Was Beautiful” I’m not sure Gary’s art fits my tastes but the title of the exhibition describes one of the feelings of widowhood. Before, everything was beautiful, and now everything isn’t. That isn’t really … Continue reading →

From an article yesterday’s NY Times by Joan Didion. “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look … Continue reading →

Hugh Macleod has a site gapingvoid at which he posts interesting thoughts on Marketing. He also creates some wonderful cartoons on the back of business cards. I wonder sometimes where he gets the inspirations for them. I’m sure it is … Continue reading →

Homecoming football. The home team played very young. I think they need some more experience 🙂

I received a great gift for my birthday.  A box of “Good Life for Men“.  I need some.

Tonight I went to see the Tornado Tails show that is part of the homecoming activites at her school. Each class puts on a humorous skit and the best skit (or the seniors) wins. It was very funny, I even … Continue reading →

Look it’s fall here in Florida the leaf changed.

An interesting description of widowhood. I think that we spend much time trying to understand this existence in such a way that we can somehow keep an optimistic view. So that even in the deepest depths we can hold on … Continue reading →