My wife had Juneteenth off, and I had some PTO days burning a hole in my pocket, so we decided to get away for a long weekend and we went up to our family vacation home in Maine. Maine has pretty strict quarantine policies, so we drove straight up and…
Today has been pretty good. My parents stopped by this afternoon (at a safe distance) to drop off some seedlings for my garden, mostly tomatoes and peppers (including a few chilies that my dad had grown from seed.) This was really great because I had been avoiding going to the…
We did a virtual shiva for my grandmother today. It was nice to see all the people who cared for her, and for us. What was kind-of amazing is that we were able to get people from all over the country on a Zoom call together. It's a small blessing…
I was talking with my rabbi just now and he suggested that writing about my grandmother might help working through my feelings about her death. I think he's probably right, so here goes, it is going to be rambly... When I was talking with him I became increasingly aware that…
Just after breakfast my mom called to tell me that my grandmother had died last night. She would have been 101 in a couple of weeks, and it was just a matter of old age. She lived in her own home right up to the end. Rationally I know that…