The One Year Anniversary Blog...(Subtitle...You SO knew this was coming.)
I was going to start this with a take on the Barenaked Ladies tune “One Week”…and then realized that while my tongue-in-cheek humor serves me well in times of extreme stress and anxiety…that there are times when it’s ok to FEEL the pain and the hurt and that there is value in it (with conditions)…so instead I open with this thought… God I miss you Mom. This past year…what a whirlwind. Every day seemed to stretch and fly at the same time like the space/time continuum was thumbing its nose at us. Her death at 11:04 seemed to be a watershed moment for me and mine. Like the night of February 11, 2012 for me…2/16/02, 1/19/1991 and others. A day I’ll remember always…that was normal until something extraordinary occurred that would forever shape the days that followed. I’m changed of course by it…and comforted by it. I look at the recent events surrounding the death of Robin Williams...and how his children are fe...