El dia de Los Muertos is a Mexican celebration in which people remember and honor those who are no longer with them. This day people believe that the souls of the dead return to visit their living family members. Can you imagine having one day of the year when our loved ones come back ...
This is Briggs and me a few days before actual Christmas, when we took my Mom, “Omi” out for what will now be our traditional “First Christmas” – a dinner out in late December with Omi’s first-borns (first daughter and first grandson – my Mom only has daughters and grandsons. ...
Learning to appreciate another culture through its language, through the words of an old woman who has seen life and lived to tell about it, now feels like a blessing. When my parents told us their childhood stories, we rolled our eyes. It always seemed to be intended as a lecture, pref...
“It is with great sorrow that we share this heartbreaking news. Our world was shattered Friday when our precious son Cy left to begin his journey,” his family shared on social media. “He had so many who loved him as we have; he was a kind, gentle soul. We have shared this news...
The usefulness of Google is in decline, and that’s disappointing. Wikipedia is a great resource for researching science fiction, probably our single best resource, but it’s far from perfect. The ISFDB.org has the essential details, but not the understanding. There is a lot of academic ...
Johnny Cash (1994):By turns brooding and funny (“The Man Who Wouldn’t Cry”), sobering (“Beast in Me”) and down-right scary (“Delia”), Cash plumbs the depth of our country’s hopes and fears. He didn’t shy away from those tough questions, even at the end, and in so doi...
In my name and all the people working at GE Grid, I would like to express our condolences to all of Claude’s loved ones and friends. I fully agree that we lost a great friend yet I am sure that he will in a sense always remain alive for all the people who have been so lucky ...
“We saw in each other a kindred spirit of men coming from unlikely circumstances, and rising to be the light and beacon of our family and loved ones. Men who learned the joy and pains of love in life, and success, while coming to realize that nothing is more important than family, ...
it just makes you really positive about things and want to show a positive side to how you're feeling, about where you're going. We've lived with the demons so long, we've found a way to live with them. We found a way to be at peace with our demons, in a way. Maybe not com...
in our classes in thoughts. Now is just a memory we remember. Remember the laughter. the togetherness with us kids. With kids abused or not. Spoiled or harmed. When we had bad grades…Im sure many of us made them better for JP and Gertrude. We sent them our thoughts, our hurts, ...