how mickey mouse keeps viv & gregg’s love alive
Thanks to Gregg Viall for this touching story about his wife Viv, himself and Mickey…
Browsing: Memories
still flying those night flights
This is a poem to remember August evenings, summer, travel, dreams, hope, death, grief, rebirth,…
beauty, magic, grief and reflections on regret
“Tears are rolling down my cheeks,” Anita’s comment began after the link to “come to…
a year ago yesterday
July 27, 2017: One year ago yesterday, when I went to visit Mom as I…
beauty & the bbq on the back deck
July 8, 2017: The images popped up unbidden on my Facebook page–did I want…
mom and her bff gaby sing happy birthday o canada
July 1, 2014: Mom and I roll outside to sit with Gaby for half an hour before…
the telling of pookie: a story of love, magic and possibility
I didn’t know that Mother’s Day 2016 would be the last one Mom and I…
an alzheimer easter egg hunt
I had intended to leave home over the Easter weekend 2012. It was to be…
what it looks like when an angel loves you
Our angel Gabrielle Vallée McKenna almost made it to her one hundredth birthday. She wasn’t…
in the dead of the night
Flashback November 11, 2011: “Punkie?” Mom doesn’t wake me when she calls out. A woodpecker…