I’ve been avoiding this blog… mostly because I’m still wandering about in the land of loss, pain and disbelief. I’m beginning to wonder if a...

He'd be 82. I miss him. I wish he was here so that I could call him, although I rarely did (*shame*) when he was alive. He was born ...

Dad's obituary was in the weekly paper one year ago today, along with a photo of him with his motorcycle (although they cropped most of ...

Last year at this time I saw my father for the very last time. He was laying on a table in the mortuary. Cold and smooth. I touched his fa...

I started this blog on August 2nd of last year. I had just learned my father was dying of lung cancer. The bridge in Minneapolis had just co...

I made the biggest mistake I can remember making. My father was dying. We knew this. Over the last few days he had nearly stopped eating. Th...

It has been five months since my dad died. I was not certain. I had to count on my fingers to figure it out. Sometimes it feels like such a ...

It is very hard to remember that my father is gone. I keep thinking about things I need to tell him or show him. It is sort of funny, well n...

Last night marks four weeks since my father died. I tried not to think about it too much. I am not into avoiding thinking about it, but I do...

There are two more fiber sculptures in my show. This one is called Glimpses in Time, and it tells the story of my father's life. It is h...

We are back home now. We made fairly good time coming back - left around 8:30 (our time) and got to Winona around 6:30. I only got sad onc...

We had a visitation and memorial service for my father today. I made a video for the visitation. We scrambled for photographs, searching m...

At the funeral home, the room where my father's body was kept for us to view was accessed by passing through a garage. In the garage wer...

while we were driving the long road to get to him. We were four hours away when he slipped away. Everyone says it was a very peaceful passin...

My father is dying right before her eyes, a little bit each day. Yesterday he only had about a tablespoon of water - no food, no other liq...

I should have been calling more often. I keep telling myself "I will call tonight..." then I get home and get started on a project...

People keep asking how my father is doing. I have no idea how to answer that. I sometimes just say "He is dying." That is the bl...

I have been listening to the NPR and MNPR news broadcasts about the bridge collapse. So far, no one from SMU has been involved, although one...