I don’t know how long I have been a “spread my ashes” kind of person but my guess is that it has been since my grandmother’s death and visiting the cemetery with my grandfather sometime in my early years. We placed flowers in a thin vase attached to a small engraved box somewhere in the…
Tag: death
She Died Doing What I Love
I got home late last yesterday from a hike. Nothing special about that. Except this hike was with my sister Kristen, her sister-in-law Molly and my niece Meaghan and we were hiking on the trail to Sauk Mountain to look for the belongings of their mother-in-law and nana who fell to her death on July 11, 2017…
Food Is Love
I attended a celebration of life ceremony yesterday for a coworker who passed away unexpectedly at the end of August. I came out of a weekend trail work party and received the message in a voicemail. Although she was 70, her death came at quite a shock and I am still trying to process the…