My mom died on Sunday, February 7. It has been two years of watching this wonderful strong woman decline and succumb to dementia and years worth of health struggles. My heart has broken many times this past year starting with Larry’s death, but being able to do really nothing except keep her comfortable this past […]
Tag: death
A Hole in the World
2 weeks ago, my best friend and my husband, Larry Levene, died. After 18 months of battling Stage 4 colorectal cancer, he no longer had any more treatment options as the cancer was winning. In the beginning of 2019, we had gone to the next stage of treatment after his first 6 months of chemotherapy, […]
Laying Larry to Rest in New Jersey
On Wednesday, we arrived in New Jersey and got back to Fran and Joel’s apartment, all of us exhausted. We were hungry though and made it over to Cafe Italiano just up the road, where David, Donna, and Brad met up with us for dinner. It was obviously hard to see people now in person but it […]
This Kinda Helps, To Be Honest
http://lifehacker.com/youre-going-to-die-heres-how-to-deal-with-it-1791498957 Morbid as fuck, I know. But still, I do sometimes let myself get caught having trouble falling asleep when I think about it. But as someone in the comments of this Lifehacker article or maybe in the article itself points out, we weren’t really here before being born, so it’ll be going back to […]
Thoughts on my StaircaseDad
As you may or may not know by now, my stepdad Harv died this past Friday, June 28, 2013. This post is by no means a eulogy for Harv, but it certainly illustrates what is currently going on in my head as I make heads or tails of it. I am still in shock at […]