7. Left Behind
The summer of my 10th birthday would test the fragile normalcy of our family. I had completed the 4th grade, my brother Bill (aka Billy) was due to start his…
6. A Mist in the Blue
We spread mom’s ashes in the meadows of Maroon Bells in Colorado. By the time Mom was in hospice care, Dad was in a nursing home, intermittently cursing the staff…
5. She Stayed
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. My father and the many family upheavals he would initiate are threads that…
4. Blood Brothers
In the summer of my 5th year, we moved to a new house. Years later an uncle would tell me dad had lost the little house in which I was…
3. Imperial Street
A year before I was born, my mother had a skiing accident, shattering the tibia in her right leg. It was a horrific break and her leg was struggling to…
2. Confession
I just had to get out of the house. The quarantine had taken its toll. Plus, I was once again losing my nerve to write this blog. Self-doubt is insidious;…