The dove and feather amulet hung on her rear view mirror. The dove hung at one end, and the feather hung at the other. It had never (not ever!) flipped over. That is, not until that day.

Somehow she knew it was significant, but she really had no idea what it meant.

She could […]

He loved the white-with-red-stripes, soft, sugary mints. And he loved her. She loved him, too, but since she worked as a dietician, his gifted sweets went directly into a drawer, never eaten….

His premature death ended more than his gifting of mints, it also ended her sense of joy.

Then the mints started […]

The 9th of November is my parents’ anniversary, and my brother’s birthday. My father, brother, and sister-in-law were all treated at the VA hospital in Phoenix, and my brother died there. I had been watching a segment of 60 Minutes about the reconstruction of that hospital.

I do not know how this picture happened. […]

As I was driving to the funeral home, it was late in the evening and I was racing against time. I was praying all the way there that someone would still be there. When I arrived at the funeral home my heart was heavy and my thoughts were scattered. As I walked up the sidewalk […]

Although the house was way too big for her now, following his transition she lived there alone because his hands had done the wood-working and she hated the thought of leaving there. Memories of him were everywhere in that house, and when it eventually came time for her to leave it, he was still there […]