Saturday, December 26th, 2009 @ 10:51 pm

Yesterday was Christmas day, the day we celebrate the holiday. And we do so with a family get together and dinner. The holidays tend to be hard on me, emotionally. And since my brother passed on and is no longer a part of these family events they only got harder. I have a tendency to [...]

Sunday, October 4th, 2009 @ 11:47 pm

My dad picked me up today to see my grandmother. Of my dad’s side; my only remaining living grandparent. She’s well over 80 years old I think but still quite of sound mind and very talkative. She has been steadily declining though and doesn’t go outside much, or at all, anymore. A few other family [...]

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 @ 7:36 pm

An aunt and uncle of mine were having their 40th wedding anniversary and threw a big party for the entire family and entourage. They rented a big hall nearby and sent out noticed to everyone invited a few months in advance telling them to keep that date clear. So it was gonna be this huge [...]

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

I actually had quite a bit written down but decided to do a different take and rewrote the whole thing. Let me start off by saying that my uncle was a great man who, after my grandmother died, took on the role as Pater Familias which is no small task let me tell you. He [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 @ 10:26 am

My family got the call to come over to the hospital yesterday as things were looking very grim. It was said it was time to say goodbye. All the brothers and sisters who were able to showed up to have one last moment with him. He passed away this morning. While we all kinda knew [...]