2014 in Review

At the end of the past two years, I believe, I've written about what took place during that year, so I'm doing so again. Here's the synopsis, as best my memory can recollect. In January, my mother celebrated her 84th birthday, so we spent a little time with her. The month was otherwise uneventful. In …

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A Follow Up

Well, I had my surgery yesterday. It was my third in the last four months. I guess it went okay. Although it's taking awhile for me to recover. I've gotten really woozy, very dizzy, and have had a sore jaw and a real headache -- very bad -- ever since waking from the anesthesia. At …

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Miserable Week

It's been a pretty tough week, although I'm going to start with last Friday night. Last Friday night, at 10 PM before we went to bed, I opened the freezer door and discovered the entire thing was melted. We have a huge ice tray and it was full to the brim with melted ice -- …

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Reflections

Hi. It's been awhile since I've actually written anything here, besides book reviews. Sorry. A lot has been going on. My mom moved from Chattanooga to Knoxville and we've been back and forth between the two cities a lot lately. In fact, we've seen my mom four of the past five weekends, which is more …

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Depression

I think I've been in a deep depression since Toby's death last month. And I think his death magnifies my father's death last year. I should be feeling good, living in a nice, new house in a nice, quiet, safe neighborhood, but all I can think about is how Toby isn't here and doesn't get …

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