[Today is] the birthday of Ken Kesey, born in La Junta, Colorado (1935). He was a champion wrestler in high school and voted most likely to succeed. He married his high school sweetheart and then accepted a fellowship in creative writing at Stanford. He got a job as a night aide at the VA hospital […]
I just sent this email to Dr. Allen Cusack of Cusack Mortuary: Hey Allen, I’m just checking again on the status of my mother’s cremation. On the 6th you said that she was being cremated and that we might receive her ashes as early as the 7th. Then on the 11th you said you would […]
A long-time friend of my mother’s sent me this email in regards to yesterday’s post about Sister Carol Mary Morrison: Dear David, Sister Carol Mary Morrison was one of 12 women, 4 being nuns, who lived at the House of Faith, part of St. Patrick’s parish in Providence. The actual house, the former convent, was […]
While I was going through my mom’s old Yahoo! email account I found several messages to someone named Carol Mary. She was clearly someone important to my mom, although the name only vaguely and barely rung a bell. I sent an email to her on Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 11:57 pm. I wrote: Hello, […]
I sent this email to attorney Steve Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP on September 11th, 2012: Dear Steve, I asked Dr. Wolf if she would share her email address with me and she said that she would not. She said that because of the state of Florida’s broad and liberal public records laws, she […]
When I got home from work tonight I found an envelope from J.E. Cusack Mortuary. Inside was a two-page Certification of Death from the State of Florida Office of Vital Statistics. It’s very official. It’s printed on water-marked paper which looks like it would be nearly impossible to forge. My mom is listed as the […]
Attorney Steve Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP called me on the afternoon of September 11th, 2012. After a few pleasantries he told me that he had talked to Dr. Wolf the previous day, and that he requested the medical records and insurance information from Woodland Terrace. 1 Steve said that Dr. Wolf thinks that […]
I just sent this email to Dr. Cusack of Cusack Mortuary: Hey Allen, I’m just checking on the status of my mother’s cremation. On the 6th you said that we might receive her ashes as early as the 7th; I have not heard from you since then and I haven’t received anything. Is everything okay? […]