Showing posts with label Mom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mom. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Life Is Life

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The roses are already starting to wither, only days after they bloomed; life is short. I am no gardener, though I do like flowers ...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Some Week!

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Today is Brugger’s birthday — which we celebrated at Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar this past week with friends Stephen and Sa...
Friday, September 4, 2020

Found a Birdie

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“For the Birds” geocart in Alamance County, NC. Found ’em all. It’s all about personal circumstances: the ever-deepening sense that life...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

First-to-Find in Goblintown

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Yesterday after work, I headed up to Martinsville to deal with some pressing affairs following Mom’s passing. Nothing too taxing at this p...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Cachin’ Away the Clusterfuck

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Sure enough, 2020 has been pretty much a clusterfuck since it began, and it’s most assuredly not going to miraculously turn around anytime...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Reflections

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This one is very personal to me. Several years ago, when Mom was just starting to lose her memory, I decided to write for her, on Mother’...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Barbara Rainey: A Life of Love

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My mom passed away today. It’s been a rough one, so for the moment, I will simply post her obituary, which I wrote at her request. Barb...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Options

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I figured I ought to check in here on ye olde blog this evening, as it's been way too long since I've had the opportunity to post...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Still Believing, Young Blood, and More

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Scary author with the novel Young Blood Ms. B. and I have returned home from a whirlwind weekend in Martinsville, which started Friday ...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Tree Peepers, Bedlam, and Adolescent Classics

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As I'm having to spend more and more time with my mom, going with increasing frequency to my old hometown to care for her, I find myse...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Wind, Wine, Bones, and Snow

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Hey, those two are drinking wine again! That's what you just said, isn't it? Well, we did, for a bit. Ms. B. and I spent a coup...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Going Back to My... Roots

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Actually, the blog title is the name — more or less — of a fun little geocache ( GC695ET ) I found this afternoon in Eden, NC. Quite en...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Eve, Muggy Eve

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Just a quick entry here for future personal recollections. It's bloody ugly out there — too warm, too muggy, too damned wet. At least ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

R.I.P. Taco "Bell" Rainey

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What an unbelievably horrible month for the loss of life April has become. My mom's little dog, Taco, had to be put down — on April 16, ...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

R.I.P. Brandy Rainey

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I received the sad news yesterday that my mom's little dog, Brandy, after rapidly increasing physical decline, had finally been put to s...