love – Can We? Will We?

Do I Miss My Mom?

Let me start by saying that I know…that as I’m posting this now (it’s something I wrote awhile ago).…it’s not really about my mom and me. It’s about life. The unexpectedness of life…The roll of life. The questions of life. So… Do I miss my mom? Somehow I got to a place with my momContinue reading “Do I Miss My Mom?”

One Year

One year without Sunday dinners. One year without my wise counselor. One year without his belly laugh. One year without…Niels. I’ve been feeling the need to write, but I didn’t know what to write. I didn’t have my “why”. I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. Or how to say it. I mean…whatContinue reading “One Year”

A Love Story

Mary and Roberto* I’d like to tell you another story. It’s connected to my last story…but you’ll have to wait until the end… Last week, we got the call…Mom had changed and it was time to get in the car and head for Pasadena. I had the honor and privilege to be with Mom inContinue reading “A Love Story”

mother

Mother is a complicated word. It’s a noun and a verb. It’s a proper noun when it replaces a name and therefore it’s capitalized. It’s a verb when someone is taking on the role of nurturing another. And we all know that if you add an “s” at the beginning of mother…it takes on aContinue reading “mother”