On this day in 1994, I lost my youngest sister to a drunk driver. It seems like only yesterday, but it seems like a hundred years ago.
She was an amazing person. I miss her terribly. We can only imagine who she might be today.
Don’t drive drunk. Seriously.
I’ve just returned from a spring break road trip with my family. I spent a lot more money than I intended to and managed to get my first speeding ticket in more than a decade. Here are ten things we did which we enjoyed the most.
Toured the Theo Chocolate factory in Seattle and [...]
Yay, Christmas. I’m still foggy on why it is that the price of gas has dropped by three dollars over the last four months, but my air fare to Boise is more expensive than it was last year. I guess that’s not the most important thing in the world to focus on, but [...]
On this day in 1994, my youngest sister, Jody, was killed by a drunk driver. I can hardly believe more than 14 years have passed since her light shined upon the world. In her memory, my tradition is to fast on May 4. The last time I ate a meal on this [...]
Returning home from Idaho at Christmas time is usually not much of a challenge. After getting dropped off at the curb on Wednesday, I fully expected to get on my four o’clock flight and be home around 5:30 or 6. With my car parked at San Jose, it would be a relatively painless [...]
You’d be thirty years old today. Everyone in the family misses you, especially on your birthday. What kind of dazzling, shining, astonishing human being would you be today? Where would you be? Who would you love? What would you do? What would your passions be? Where would [...]
My little brother turned 34 years old today. Damn, dude, can you be that old already?
At least your hair isn’t grey like mine is. Celebrate that for now.
Happy birthday, man.
What a great visit.
On Monday, I went to pick up the kids (mine) from my ex-mother-in-law in Ontario, Oregon, a few miles from Grandma’s house. We ate lunch and returned to Payette to hang out. I brought an extra laptop, my retiring iBook, to give to them, so we worked on cleaning that [...]
Today would be your 29th birthday. I wonder what you’d be doing today. What would you have become? Where would you have gone to school? Would you be married yet? What would you be passionate about? Where would you live? What would your dreams and aspirations be? [...]
On this day eleven years ago, my youngest sister, Jody, was killed by a drunk driver in Canyon County, Idaho. Had she lived three more weeks, she’d have celebrated her eighteenth birthday with the fresh new high school diploma from the day before in her hand. She was a spectacular supernova of a [...]
Yesterday, a few hours after I finished my bus ride home from Forward, my brother called me. Grandma had been on her treadmill and had falled off, shattering her right shoulder. She spent the next two hours getting to the phone to call someone.
Today, I called my uncle and talked to him for [...]
Happy Birthday, Jody. You’d be 28 today. If I could, I’d get you a cake with candles a mile long.
Actually, I kind of did. Since you can’t eat cake and I don’t eat cake, I thought about what I could do instead. A mile long. How about a mile of [...]
Happy Birthday, Lee. I’m so incredibly proud of you. You are smart and funny and wonderful. There are spectacular things in your future—things that you can’t even imagine today.
Happy Birthday, Brittany. You are an incredibly special, sweet, and wonderful girl. There are no limits to what you can become.
Last day in Idaho started out alright, although I woke up about 10:30. My kids were ready to go home and sleep in their own beds again for the first time since Sunday, but my flight wasn’t to leave until 9:20. I hung out with them until four, when my ex-wife came to [...]
The last couple of days at Grandma’s house have been great. We’ve watched Chicken Run (2000) and Titan A.E., ate the worst pizza (Klondike of Ontario, Oregon), and played some chess. My son is a superb chess player for a seven-year-old who doesn’t own a complete chess set (he used to, but kids [...]
At Grandma’s house, we unwrap everything on X-mas eve, so all of the various people can spend the holiday at places where they unwrap all the gifts on that day. Most everyone had another house to go to today. My brother had his in-laws in Willow Creek, 40 miles away. My sister’s [...]
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