It’s been a year since my eldest son died. I have said that it was a shock, but not till now did I realize that I truly was in shock. I do not have any vivid recall of the whole timeframe of Christmas and New Years of 2003. I know Paul was here only because I remember him coming in to town the day after the fire. I made it through the holidays ( Read more... )

I find myself getting irritated by things that don’t fit nicely in predetermined models. I am specifically talking about work, and generally about life. The effort required to massage something to fit a rigid model is exceedingly time-consuming, not to mention frustrating. But a model is not reality, it is an approximation that we create to ( Read more... )

This is my very first LJ posting. The impetus for starting a LJ page was so that my husband could include me in his ‘Friends’ so I can see his private postings. But since I have this, I might as well put it to good use ( Read more... )