Posts Tagged ‘Dad’

Little reminders…

By amanda January 11th, 2010

A friends Father just had open heart surgery.  Scary thing.  He’s recov­er­ing well, and the whole fam­ily has been around him the entire time.  She has been back and forth, miss­ing work here and there but grate­ful that she can help.  It’s won­der­ful that they have this time, that he has a sec­ond chance at […]

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Channeling…

By amanda August 30th, 2009

I was think­ing of Mark a lot on our fish­ing trip.  I was hop­ing he’d give me a bit of luck.  I wore his flan­nel.  I knew he would LOVE being up at the cabin.  I brought my lit­tle tackle box that he had given me.  I asked him for help and hoped to make […]

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4th

By amanda July 6th, 2009

I remem­ber the 4th of July with Mark.  He was always very proud to be the guy with the most ash in his yard on the 5th.  I think the most fun times we had were when “Billy” lived across the street and he and Mark would have the equiv­i­lant to a fire­works piss­ing contest…it […]

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Frailty…

By amanda May 28th, 2009

It sucks…it sucks what can hap­pen to your body.  It sucks when you can’t catch a break.  When a med­ica­tion that is try to fix “A” screws up “B” and points you to “C” which is falling apart too.  It sucks that things get to the point that they can’t be repaired, and just keep […]

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