world AIDS day

My status update from facebook: yes, of course, everybody dies a little more each day, but sometimes I can watch it dance across my face, see it stare back from my eyes. today, I realized something about myself as I watch a retail clerk try oh-so hard to be polite as she stared at my […]

the first step of the last phase…

My plans for the evening got cancelled. Well, postponed. An obligation ran long and I had to call the day and stay in the rest of my evening, which is fine considering. I had missed a call from my studiomate while thrifting this morning. I hadn’t yet returned the call. The phone rang later than […]

passing the G

I recently made mention of my Aunt Dee, whom I saw over the holiday trip home to Ohio. She is my favorite aunt; the one that makes everything more fun. She is the one crazy enough to make all those freakin’ layers of jello between cream layers for that rainbow jello thingie growing up… (My […]

holiday dinner

The family got together this evening for the big holiday dinner. The folks, my sisters, my nieces, two aunts, one uncle, a cousin and her son. The food was excellent, of course; my mom’s holiday dinners always are… The highlight for me was my Aunt Dee. (She has always been my favorite…) She is the […]

the re-gifting of the holidays

When re-gifting takes most of a lifetime, it can end up being a pretty cool thing…My dad’s jewelry box, most likely from some point in the fifties… The cuff-links that remained from the day he gave it to me when I was home this time last year. The only remaining thing of importance that he […]

tending to family

Well, things get much more real standing in front of them all, don’t they…? I am back home with my parents and I am happy for it, but the reality of the past couple of years on my parents is a physical presence. My dad’s in-home physical therapy is mostly on hold, because my mom’s radiation […]

returning home the hero

Alternate title: How I saved the internets. I am back to my childhood home, sleeping in the bed that was mine most all my life. Well, the frame anyway, the mattress set is newer. To back up a bit first… I spent Friday night in Columbus at the baths, which has become a favorite habit […]

smack me in the face sorta dream

I dreamt that my maternal grandmother died. The oddest thing about it is the fact that she has been dead for nearly two decades. I was incredibly distraught about the whole thing, while helping my mother with the ceremony set-up. It was at a horrid facility, well, horribly run… it was an outdoor place that seemingly […]

I can’t get you outta my head…

Back on Sunday, when I had the chat with my mom… I filled her in on my studiomate’s health and the reality that he and I should move to liquidate stuff and dump the studio before it becomes a financial burden on both of us… And it has been close to that for awhile at this point. At […]

fuckity fuck fuck

I just got off the phone with my mom… Dad is back home, seemingly for good. The doctor only had to remove a tiny bit of the bone in his little toe. Everything with Dad seems to be levelling off finally. Only two years of an ordeal… And my mom has breast cancer… She is much […]