Meals cooked, Thank you cards written after the funeral. During those dreadful last months Of my mother’s life, There were flickers like Lightning bugs of Laughter and lightness and Hope for the future, And Doug’s relationship with Sarah Was one of them, And Sarah herself was another. The...
Thank you cards written after the funeral. During those dreadful last months Of my mother’s life, There were flickers like Lightning bugs of Laughter and lightness and Hope for the future, And Doug’s relationship with Sarah Was one of them, And Sarah herself was another. The day of the...
“I had an appointment with a funeral director yesterday to talk about funeral arrangements,” Maeve pointed at her sisters, “so you two won’t have to bother with them – and I have an appointment with Father Flannery tomorrow after work to talk about the art of dying.” Maeve took the...
Thank you. Love, Mom PS2 Remember, Murder Mystery funeral. I’ll leave a few different scenarios you can use but if you’ve got a better idea, do it. I won’t care — I’ll be dead. PS3 Not dying. Just freeforming. This is why you need to burn the Morning Pages. Decades of ...
The funeral home was packed, so most of us had to hang outside, which was fine with me because I did not want to see Bruce lying dead in a coffin at nineteen years old. After the wake, a bunch of us went to the diner, and we sat at one of those round booths in the corner ...
Jason pocketed the deck of cards and cracked his knuckles. “Well let’s get this done.” He moved to stand. “I’ll take Special Forces if you want to –” “There is one other thing…” Jason stared at Damon, and then sunk back into his seat. “There always is …” “Ley Line...
Wishing you all the happiness you deserve—and not one ounce more. May the chocolate chips in your cookies always turn out to be raisins. May you have a sparsely attended funeral. Insulting to Men “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork!”~Mae West ...
I prefer the teacher to use flash cards. W: But if you go on working so hard, you could become ill. Do you sleep enough? M: Well, about five hours a day. W: That's bad. Take my advice and rest for a day. Get out in the fresh air and sunshine, and you'll feel br...
The document also raises questions about funeral choices, etc. The truth is that I want my funeral to be held before I die. Who cares afterwards? Pas moi, I suspect. So I put that in. Why not? What does this have to do with writing? Not much. But it has a lot to do with read...
Pericles’ funeral oration for the dead of the Peloponnesian War in the Kerameikos of Athens by Philipp Foltz (1852) When we think of Athens today, we inevitably think of that ‘Golden Age’ city which Pericles, after the destruction wrought by the war with Persia, helped to build into a...