Category: Life It’s Ownself

  • semitough

    The Long Goodbye

    It started on Friday, December 16, 2016. I didn’t know it at the time, but in hindsight it has become clear. This was the day we started the long process of losing little bits of Kim, saying goodbye, hoping they would return. Things like her voice, her laugh, her wit. All were there till almost the end but eroded. Sometimes…

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    Ice Cream Sandwiches

    I know I said I was going to focus on memories past. But through all of this we continue to make memories every single day. Or do things that harken back to a time when things were different. Normal. The pattern over the past couple of weeks has developed that Esposa will take her nighty night meds around 9 pm…

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    Ships In The Night

    As Esposa and I started spending time together after meeting as described in my last post, we started talking about where we had been and what we had been doing all our lives prior to meeting. We started to notice a strange convergence of coincidentally being in the same place at the same time. Sometimes just in the same city,…

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    Tacos, Football & 99 cent Margaritas

    When asked how we met Esposa and I generally answer “On a blind date” which is technically true. But it wasn’t completely blind and wasn’t a “real” date. Allow me to explain. In the fall of 1988 I was sharing a townhouse in Dallas with my old buddy Ralph. An Aggie through & through, Ralph was dating the inscrutable Helen.…