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"You're a Funny Little Man"
Had an upsetting lunch with mom today. The lead up to Christmas without Chris has been hard on her. She's had several bad days, and her widow-hood is very much on her mind. I am stating all that as an acknowledgment before I say this.
Over and over again she has repeated that she's only buying gift for the grandkids this year. And every single ( Read more... ) -
Chris Moore: A Celebration of Life
It's Monday morning and we still have family in town, but I wanted to drop a note about how the event went. I cannot fully articulate the emotions I experienced, and my perspective on how my friends and family participated in the day. It was too big. In so many ways it was like a wedding. We had weeks and weeks of planning, then we helped to ( Read more... ) -
Prepared Remarks
When I was 14 years old, my mom started dating a man from Massachusetts. He entered our lives quickly. After only a couple months of dating, he told us that he was moving into our townhouse and my response was simply: "How would that be any different from now?"
Chris had two two kids of his own. And the way his two kids and my brother and sister ( Read more... ) -
May I Be Bold Enough...?
On Monday one of Chris's golf buddies called his cellphone and mom answered it. He basically demanded to to know what happened. Like what happened exactly. "I just talked to him the other day," he insisted, as though mom had bad intel and Chris was somehow still alive. It upset her. Kitty was there to hear the call and witnessed how it upset her, ( Read more... ) -
Curse of the Bambino
31 years ago (the same week he met my mom,) Chris joined a Fantasy Football Draft with his friend Kevin David. And every year since then he's participated, some years winning, some years losing, some years getting the worse results and having to sign a toilet seat Kevin has for the event. Today was the draft and the first time in 31 years he couldn ( Read more... ) -
What Had Happened
CW - Death
Chris died on Friday, from a fall, while staying at a cabin in Maine. It's Sunday now and we are all bewildered, and devastated.
Since Christopher called me at 12:40 on Friday, in a conference call with mom, the story has evolved several times. During that call, they said he was at his buddy Jim's cabin a night earlier than the rest of ( Read more... ) -
DNC Thoughts
Dana and watched the DNC this week, mostly in its entirety. I had Magic Thursday night, so I came in late for that night, around when D.L.Hugely was on stage. Overall, the convention was pretty great with the exception of their decision not to allow a Palestinian speaker and the hard right pivot of the final day's presentation. I get the political ( Read more... ) -
Camp Grayson
On Monday night, Dori called and asked if Peyton could spend the night at our house. Ace had killed a skunk in their yard and brought the spray into their house. And Peyt couldn't stand the smell. Dana said yes before even telling me about the call. By 10:30 Peyt was here and I had texted work requesting time off the next day.
That overnight turned ( Read more... ) -
Olympic Fever
The first week with the new puppy and first week of Paris 2024 Olympic event coverage? Let's go.
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Maybe Maple?
I woke yesterday at 5:20 off the same alarm I set for myself during the work-week. I let the pups out, took a shower and got dressed. Dana was up shortly after, fed them, put them in their crates, and assembled some roadtrip items: The portable battery (to fill a tire if it got flat, or jump the battery in an emergency,) a new dog crate, a doggy ( Read more... )