Saturday, Oct 11 2008
A week ago today we had the funeral service for my grandmother. Of course there were many moments of tears and sadness, but the weekend overall was really nice. Nice? Yes. Because the entire weekend was about our family. My mom and step-dad, my brothers and their families, my uncle and aunt, my cousins, family [...]
Categories: Childhood, Parenthood -- Tags: Death, Family, MichelleMonday, Sep 29 2008
When I call my maternal grandmother for semi-regular phone chats, at some point I ask her how she’s feeling in the aches and pains department. She usually underplays the back pain or the leg pain with some cavalier comment like, “Oh there are good days and bad days.” So often she will change the subject [...]
Categories: Daily Grind -- Tags: Death, FamilyThursday, Aug 14 2008
It is impossible to watch the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing without evoking a sense of nostalgia for my Olympic experience over a decade ago. As college sophomores, three of my girlfriends and I worked as security guards at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. Yes, security guards. Not so much the gun and cuffs [...]
Categories: Special Event -- Tags: Family, Friends, Michelle, OlympicsTuesday, Aug 12 2008
The last weekend of June my family and I traveled to Idaho/Washington for a Cousins Reunion. My mother was looking forward to sleeping in her first morning in Seattle after a long, exhausting day of travel from Ohio to the West coast with my step-dad and grandmother, both in their 80s. Mama did not get [...]
Categories: Blog, Travel -- Tags: Family, Michelle