An Announcement
Mom willed 10% of her estate to Habitat for Humanity. When we got to the point of actually handing the money over, Theresa Richardson, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity here in the Tri-Cities sent us a nice letter thanking … Read more
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I Think I’ve Run Out of Stuff
No doubt I’m still grieving. I still have a shed full of my mother’s stuff that I need to go through and get rid of. However, everytime I go in there, I’m overwhelmed. That is partly because she really was … Read more
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My Mother Put Me in a Gay Pride Parade in Portland, and I Liked It.
My mother was the 6th of 8 children born to Irish Catholic parents. She and her siblings all attended private Catholic school. My grandfather was the 10th child born to Irish Catholic parents. My grandmother, an only child, was raised … Read more
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Very Different, She and I
My mother was prone to fits of catatonic depression. I don’t know how many times in my teenage years she abandoned her family to bury herself in a bed of blankets. She pulled the shades tight, and sank into her … Read more
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State of Mind
Mostly, we be-bop through life worrying away at the day-to-day things — like the “check engine” light on my car that seems to come on only when I need to be somewhere 15 miles away in 10 minutes. I, like … Read more
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