Yearly Archives: 2003

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Much to report here at my oft-neglected BLOG. First last night – Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers came through again! I think that makes 4 or 5 times that I’ve seen them at Smiths Olde Bar. I took my digital camera, so I will post some pictures sooner or later (hopefully sooner, but I’m going home this weekend). I can’t wait for a new CD from RCPM. I highly recommend this band. Fun music was what got me hooked, but there are also some balladesque songs that Roger and the … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Cactus Almost two years ago, I visited my now-late grandmother at Christmas. While there, she gave me cuttings from two of her cacti. She told me one was a Thanksgiving and the other a Christmas cactus – the main difference being when they would bloom. Neither of them bloomed last year. This past January, Granny passed away, and I’m still dealing with the grief. Just now I was heading out the front door when I passed the cacti and some other plants that I moved into the foyer from … Continue reading →

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Today would have been Granny’s 93 birthday. Last year my Dad and I went to see her a couple of days before her birthday since it was on a weekday, as this year. That’s the last time I really had a conversation with her. When I saw her on Christmas Eve, she was in ICU. The only thing she said to me was “I hurt.” That was more than she had said the rest of the time there according to family. When I saw her a couple of days before … Continue reading →

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Nice weekend at home. I finished painting the trim on the front of the house and painted half of the porch floor. Also reglazed all of the windows I could reach (the ones behind fixed storm windows (if they even need it) will have to wait until I pull down the storms to paint those windows. Also laid down a new vapor barrier under the house. Next weekend will be more of the same along with the Andersonville Fall Festival. I’m taking a couple of vacation days and working a … Continue reading →

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There’s so much I could say about the year to date. The highs, the lows – unfortunately more of the latter. Beginning with the loss of my grandmother in January and continuing with my mom’s multiple surgeries for a broken ankle in Feb, it’s been quite a year. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think there will be anything I look back fondly of for 2003. That said, DragonCon was a heap of fun, as usual. And Brian (my cousin) and Kelly, bought a new home not far from … Continue reading →

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It’s been over a week since we laid Granny to rest at Macedonia next to a grandfather that none of us grandchildren knew. She outlived him by almost 40 years, time enough to see all her grandchildren born and raised into adulthood and for the beginnings of another generation to creep in. But to me, it was still not enough time. I’ve been grieiving, which I guess is normal enough. Every so often things will feel normal and in an instant something will remind me that she’s no longer waiting … Continue reading →

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It happened today in the late afternoon in South Alabama. My grandmother passed away. Intellectually, I can face it. Emotionally, I don’t think I’ll totally believe it until I’m at the funeral. I find it so hard to imagine never speaking to her again. It was hard watching even from my distance, the slow loss of someone I cared so much for, but I hope wherever she is now, she’s no longer in pain and she’s back with loved ones, long and recent gone. I never wanted to let go, … Continue reading →

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I haven’t written lately. I haven’t known what to say. On top of my own all-too-natural questioning of the universe and my place in it, I’ve been dealing at a long distance with feelings over my grandmother’s deteriorating physical condition. Everytime I talk to someone about it, I seem determined to tell them she’s 92 years old, that she’s surely lived a long life, and hopefully much of it was good as we could make it for her. And everytime I make that comment, I feel like we all deserve … Continue reading →