I just received the following email from my sister: Oh, I haven’t been able to figure out Mom’s mental deal. [name redacted] suggested it could be a thyroid thing which she says docs are discovering affects a lot of women, causing weight gain and depression, etc. Not all of it, but it could be part […]
The beginning of the end
Mom, I don’t know what to do about your cell phone. I wish we had more samples of your voice or more videos. Seven o’clock every night is still hard. And your birthday is coming up. I went to Maui for David’s wedding. Jen and I shared a condo and spent a lot of time […]
Dear Mom, It’s Sunday, September 16th. I’ll be 59 next Saturday. I’ve been spending a lot of time with Donna Omer — looking for a dress for David’s wedding. I had lost 21 lbs, but now I’m back up. I truly can’t imagine being at Dic’s for my birthday without you there. I miss you […]
While combing through mom’s old computer hard drive in the middle of March, 2013, I found a folder of letters mom had written after her mother — my maternal grandmother — died. “Nana Anna” died on May 4th, 2007 and it just completely devastated mom. It’s a cruel fact that mom died under very similar […]
I found this letter on mom’s old computer hard drive. The file KATHLEEN A.doc was created on June 16th, 2007. I don’t know who Ms. Jackson is, but I assume it is someone that worked at Indigo Manor, the nursing home where my maternal grandmother died. Anna Sophia Albanese (aka “Nana”, “Nana Anna”, “Nana from […]
I found a bunch of files on mom’s old Dell hard drive in the middle of March of 2013. One was a letter written to two of her friends (from Americorps, I assume) regarding caring for her pets while she was dealing with the declining health of her own mother. She saved it at 9:41 […]
I really like this photo of my mother and grandmother. My grandmother was an amazing woman and I loved her dearly. When Nana died it just devastated mom, and I have always been a little sad that my son never got a chance to know his great-grandmother. And it pains me more than I can […]
From: Gagne, Kathleen To: [redacted] Subject: Hello Again Again (2) Sent: May 26, 2006 Hi, Brenda, Robin, and Tony (I hope) David ran in the Los Angeles Marathon on April 19. He is 32 and has never run a marathon before. His number was 23647, and I think you can see pics of him […]