Tag: memories

  • Jazz and Grief

    Listening to jazz as I grieve my father’s death.

  • Happy 80th Birthday, Mom!

    Just about to hop in the shower and pick up my sister from the airport to celebrate our mother’s 80th birthday! It’s a miracle she’s with us. She’s a survivor of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, stroke and vascular dementia. She’s a fighter. Proud of her.

  • Sandstorm

    She was a young girl Living in a company compound The only barrier between her And the vast Arabian desert A chain link fence One day after school A haboob, a desert sandstorm Swept in through that flimsy fence Thousands of needles Drove into the thin skin Of her face, arms and legs She was…