aging Category

The Mother of All Days

Mother’s Day. She comes around every year and has a way of stopping me in my tracks. A mixture of gratitude and grief, timing and tragedy, love and loss. (note the deliberate order of those comparisons). Elaine. The queen of the glass half full. Even when she couldn’t find the glass anymore she fought her […]

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I don’t mind getting old

This page is so very special to me because I know that aging was something Elaine struggled with often. She could never get used to its limitations; she often felt her body was betraying her. Or at the very least it got in the way of what she wanted to do. Sadly, this inability to understand […]

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Enjoy life’s ride in the slow lane

Found on Elaine’s desk the day she died. Can’t help but think she left these things for me to find along the way.

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