#FridayFive: Kathie Gagne September 22nd, 2017 @ 5:53 am PDT
On the occasion of what would have been her 69th birthday
Cursed January 25th, 2016 @ 11:17 am PST
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. William Somerset Maugham, (b) Jan. 25, 1874
Enlarged April 13th, 2015 @ 7:24 am PDT
Today is the birthday of Alfred M. Butts, the man who invented Scrabble, a game I’ve been playing for as long as I can remember. Words with Friends was one of the first iPhone apps I installed, and I’ve played it pretty much daily for almost a decade now. Long, long before the iPhone was […]
Another Anniversary August 12th, 2014 @ 8:50 am PDT
I like this photo of my mom because I have to believe she liked it. It shows her as an adult and in probably the best shape of her life. Her only complaint, I bet, would be that my sister and I are not in it, and so it is not a true representation of […]
#FridayFive: 1975 Photos June 6th, 2014 @ 6:11 am PDT
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Mother’s Day May 11th, 2014 @ 5:16 am PDT
This is the last photo taken of me and my mother together. My little sister took it on May 11, 2012, when I visited mom at Coastal Rehab in Port Orange, Florida for Mother’s Day weekend. Mom died three months later, and I miss her more than words can say.
Christmas Eve, 2013 December 24th, 2013 @ 8:12 am PST
This is our second Christmas without mom. Last year I wrote a little bit about our Christmas Eve traditions, but I don’t have it in me this year. Christmas will be exactly 500 days since she died, which is simultaneously meaningless and important. I miss her so much.
Sixty-Five September 22nd, 2013 @ 5:13 am PDT
Today would have been mom’s 65th birthday. My little sister took this photo of me hugging her just before Mother’s Day last year. I miss her so much that it hurts, a phrase that people use frequently but not literally. But I very literally feel an ache in my heart. The last time I saw […]
#FridayFive: Memories August 16th, 2013 @ 7:49 am PDT
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Kathleen A. Gagne August 12th, 2013 @ 8:10 am PDT
My mom died one year ago today. It simultaneously feels like it was only yesterday and like it was a thousand years ago. I miss her so much that there is an actual ache in my heart. She died much too young. It was undeserved and unfair and unjust and I still rage inside that […]
