I was trying to go to sleep when I remembered something my father said. It was the day before my mother died, he and I were alone in the room with her, on either side of the bed. He was gingerly holding her swollen hand, and he started to cry softly. He said "I used to think I wanted to be the one to die first, that I wouldn't want to live ( Read more... )

Sad day...

My mom passed away a year ago June 9th, my sister 15 years ago June 10th.

May they sleep peacefully until the resurrection.

My son's prom is next year, but this year he got to escort a senior friend to hers. Man, this brought back memories ( Read more... )

Crazy night - I passed the local Speedway at 7:20 am yesterday with my gas tank nearly empty. Cheapo gas was $3.09 a gallon. Since my son was waiting for a ride to school and he would have been late if I'd stopped, I figured I'd go home, sleep, and wait until 6:00 pm on my way back in to work. By then, (less than 12 hours later) the same cheapo ( Read more... )

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™You're a bit of a romantic and have a taste for the exotic. You love feeling the sea breeze in your hair, sun on your skin... slip those shoes off... you like to kick back ( Read more... )

"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings."

- Gerard Depardieu

Oh yeah, I forgot...

This morning at 2:03 and 4 seconds, it was

02:03:04 on 05/06/07

If you missed it, there's a rerun at 2:03 this afternoon!

From "Self" magazine ( Read more... )

I only ever bought a few albums on which every single song is good, and this is one of them ( Read more... )

Kurt Vonnegut passed away today... at age 84.
and so it goes...

:``(

In his 1998 book "Timequake", his alter-ego Kilgore Trout died at age 84.