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…
I love my kids. I really really do. But they are driving me crazy. Like, completely crazy. Today my wife locked the door of the room she was working in so she could finally get some work done without the kids jumping all over her, but that meant that the…
After taking yesterday to process my grandmother's death, I was back to what has become normal today. Physical therapy, work-from-home, kid-management, and not much else. Some good things are that we've moved back into our room upstairs, and I am done with crutches. My knee is pretty sore, probably because…
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…
Things have been pretty normal-seeming this weekend. I'm walking around without crutches, we have done some fun things like going outside, baking cookies, dyeing eggs, and we've made a couple of nice dinners... Everything seems fine. But I am really not ok, and neither is anybody else in the house…
Today was one of the first days since all of this begun that felt somewhat 'normal' I've been able to get around today without the crutches, which also meant that I could more fully participate in household activities. We had some mundanity like washing dishes, laundry, and doing some house…
I've been walking with one crutch for most of this week, and my physical therapist told me he wanted me to be walking without it by the weekend. So today I tried walking with no crutches, and it mostly works. I'm not completely steady, and I don't have great strength…
My son is too young to understand, and even too young to be 'the simple son' but my daughter is starting to be old enough for some stuff to sink in. So I've been talking to her about what Passover means to me and how it teaches the importance of…