Month: June 2005

This morning Bj and I drove to Salem for my grandmother’s funeral and wake (why is it called that?). I was totally fine until we got to the funeral home. It was a private funeral, just like 30 or so family (my grandfather’s had been this huge thing downtown), so that made it a little […]

First thank you all so much for your emails and comments, it means so much!  I am doing pretty well with everything. We have all been telling stories about grandmother, and I really believe she is livin’ it up in the afterlife, but we’ll see how I do with the service and wake on Tuesday. […]

     I know heaven isn’t really up in the clouds, but I’d like to believe my grandmother’s soul is floating somewhere, interacting with other cool people and being happy. She passed away in her sleep last night, and was just barely 76. I’m so sad. My grandfather passed away almost four years ago, and […]