Tag: grief
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1 Year
Today is two things. It is my youngest brother’s 23 birthday. And it is the one year anniversary of my Grandpa Smith’s passing. When I think about Grandpa Smith, Popo as we called him, I think about a whistle-like chuckle and a grin. I think about a beige cowboy hat and a grey mustache. (He…
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3 Years
Yesterday (October 1) was the 3rd anniversary of Grandma’s death. I had a plan in mind for the last few weeks of what I would do. I was fortunate in that I didn’t have to work. I wasn’t teaching or babysitting. I slept in, ran a couple errands, and went to the cemetery. I had…
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Sad Parts of Family History *Trigger Warning: death, infant death, medical*
If you are not in a mindset where you can handle the sad today then please don’t read this post. I am heart broken over something that happened 70 years ago and I am angry that nothing was done or could have been done to prevent it. When my Grandma Fish was 18 years old…
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0 Score & 7 Years Ago
Grandpa Fish died seven years ago today. If our family was Korean we would gather and set a table of food and burn incense in his memory. We are not Korean. And we don’t have any memorial type traditions. So I think about him by myself. In years past I would visit his graveside, have…
Redheaded Jill 