Tag: in memoriam

Just Like Music: “That’s The Way Of the World”, August 2005

October 12, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

In early August 2005 I sit in the front pew of my childhood church, hand in hand with my husband Ali. A frosted pink funeral program lays across my lap, a stark contrast to my flowing black dress. Years prior a member of the church said that believers should wear bright colors to funerals, that […]

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A Letter for Grandma

February 24, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

Today is not supposed to be one of the significant anniversaries.  It is not the first, the fifth or the tenth year. It is an odd year, the eleventh since you left my life. But the weight of your absence was especially profound for me today, as the calendar date coincided with the day you […]

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