Month: July 2019

The day after we placed a series of Jerusalem stones and rocks around my father’s grave I wandered around Santa Monica thinking about odds and ends including stories my father told about going to the beach when he was a kid. Stared at the mighty Pacific and thought about the places we connected and didn’t.… Continue reading I Did All I Could…Did You

We’re down to the final 24 hours of this particular visit and I am feeling squirrely for what people tell me are good reasons. My 18 half way to 19 year-old teenage son took a look at my naked face and said for a moment I looked just like my father followed by “grow the… Continue reading Unanswered Questions

My middle sister and her youngest, my middle nephew are going to make the great run tomorrow to fly back to California for dad’s unveiling. They are cutting it closer than anyone planned because my nephew’s baseball team did the unexpected and won their state championship. That put them in the regionals where they battled… Continue reading The Memories We Share

There were 750 words here a moment ago but they are gone because I couldn’t stomach publishing them. Can’t say why, not particularly certain and it probably doesn’t matter. Been thinking a bit about public displays of emotion and how some have said I ought to be more stoic and others complain I am too… Continue reading A Public Display Of Emotion