I found an email that mom sent to my sister regarding me. The subject line was “Jen, Have you talked to David lately?” Mom wrote: Dear Jen, David told me yesterday that he was going to divert all of my mail to his address. He really has no right to do so. I know he’s […]
I still have access to mom’s old Yahoo! email account. In her “drafts” folder I found an email written to me but never sent: From: Gagne, Kathleen <djksolo@yahoo.com> To: Gagne, David Subject: Visit with Andrew Garver Sent: January 26, 2010 10:55 AM Dear David, I need you to put some money on one of […]
In early January of 2010 I was doing my best to help manage mom’s finances from 3,000 miles away. I had online access to her Bank of America checking account and would sent payments on her behalf. She seemed to be physically fine when I talked to her on the phone — better than ever, […]
Towards the end of July of 2009, mom sent me an email asking about how to build a web page. I replied to her, but she never mentioned it again and I forgot all about it. I wonder what she wanted to do … From: Gagne, Kathleen To: Gagne, David Subject: Moving and web […]
An instant messenger conversation I had with mom: 4:41:57 PM Gagne, Kathleen: hi 4:42:06 PM David: hello 4:42:30 PM Gagne, Kathleen: please call me when you are on your way home. it’s important. 4:42:36 PM David: what’s up? 4:43:16 PM Gagne, Kathleen: it’s about my house. there is no way i can keep it. i […]
I found three documents on mom’s old hard drive from the middle of June 2009. Apparently they are drafts of a letter she prepared for someone at a bank related to her attempt to avoid a foreclosure on her home in Gainesville, FL. They’re labeled save house 1.doc, save house 2.doc, and save house 3.doc […]
I found this letter that mom wrote on her old Dell computer hard drive. For some reason I think it is very funny. It reminds me of the old joke about the man at Yankee Stadium who keeps missing key plays in the game because he hears someone yelling, “Hey! Bob!” until he finally screams […]
My mom liked to crochet. I never really knew if she actually enjoyed it or if she simply did it because she was trying to continue a family tradition; her mother, my grandmother, Nana Anna, used to crochet all the time. Mom was working on a blanket for my son shortly before the events of […]
About a year after being laid off from her job at Americorps, mom applied for a position at Enterprise, the car rental company. I remember that they called her for an interview, and when I talked to her about it she felt like it went well. But she didn’t get the job and was very […]
On April 24th, 2009, mom wrote a letter to someone named Mr. Black regarding the mortgage on her home in Gainesville, FL. She was crushed when the bank eventually foreclosed on it. April 24, 2009 Dear Mr. Black, I am writing to you regarding my loan #XXXXXXXXXX. I was working with someone from your […]