There’s a little deleted comment (I didn’t do it, I swear) on the previous post. I happened to see it because the author couldn’t get into my e-mail and delete it. That author, ANNA, changed up her comments to include a “DO IT” link. (Before it said “wah-wah” *ahem*.) What Anna also mentioned in that…

Every culture has rituals, customs, rites of passage, etc. etc. And it would seem to me that since they are our rituals, customs, rites of passage, etc. etc., that we should know how to make it through most of them without making a complete fool of ourselves – simple things like how to make it…

Well, I started a new job. It was a bit untimely since it began the day after Mom’s funeral and we got off to a bumpy start. My favorite comment at the moment being, “Beth, it’s ok if you come to the Christmas party alone. Lots of people do.” I made sure to let Jay…

http://www.youtube.com/v/ATXV3DzKv68Hopefully, you can actually read the lyrics by going directly to the link. I desperately need to find a choir like this in town… and take singing lessons.

The funeral is over, the flowers are losing their color and by all accounts life is marching forward. I am truly blessed with some of the best friends and family. You get a real feel for who you can turn to after a major event and all the people who stood by me during “The…

I Wish…Remembering Tina Nelms Thank you, Anna for everything. Mom would have been deeply touched by what you wrote, but I’ll say this for her “I thought Anna would want to see the possum.” I think there was a real reason, but I’ve forgotten because we teased her a lot about that moment to the…

Everlasting Memories Cook Walden Funeral Home has provided my family with the above tribute to my Mom. My favorite piece is the “movie”; it has many of my favorite pictures and several of hers (I’m biased because I got to select most of them). The biography is the obituary that was printed in the paper…

Some of you that knew my Mom would appreciate this, so this post is for you. For the funeral we were asked what music we’d like and the word “hymns” was thrown out. I went along with it because it seemed “appropriate” and then I got home and decided that wasn’t Mom. So, here’s what…

I love you

Communicating over the internet (or the internets if you prefer), whether it’s through e-mail, IRC, MUshes, MOOs, MUD’s, MMORPG’s or any other acronym, has always been tricky especially when you’re dealing with a stranger – someone who doesn’t know your personal quirks of speech. We started really reaching out and communicating on a large scale…

I’ve angered the pizza troll. I’ve been trying to come to terms with this all week, shrugging off the troll’s importance in my life, but let’s face it; I need to win the pizza troll back over. I need to get back in the troll’s good graces. It happened innocently enough. Last week before our…

Anna just got me to sign-up for MyBlogLog – a website that tracks your site stats and tries to be for blogs what Flickr is to photographs. I’m still getting the hang of it, but I think it’s got a long way to go before it will get a big thumbs up from me. The…

We celebrated our first Halloween in our suburban utopia – many kids dressed up as princesses (including one boy who was about 13 and looked he wanted to die while escorting his younger sibling dressed as the most adorable little skunk), the Incredibles, Spiderman, soldiers, Scream and an assortment of monsters I couldn’t place. Of…