semifreelife

of the year- finally!  my new year's resolution is not to have anyone I love die this year but I can tell this will be one that I can...

when we decided to go to Morocco that things would change.  we had been in Spain for three weeks - actually more Andalusia than all of Spain...

my mother did not take (yet) was to Japan.  of course she had a layover in Japan on her way to China in 1987 but since she never left the ai...

preparing for a long time to lose my mom.  in 2009 she was so very sick that all my doctor friends told me - based on her blood numbers - th...

post for today- some more photos- we always laugh about the "fat German boy" comment because as long as I was growing up my dad ...

so of course I am thinking about lots of things my mother and I did over the years that we were traveling companions.  we pretty much loved ...

is the name of the place where my mother spent her last year and a half of life.  we always kidded her that she actually lived at the Ritz. ...

condolences keep coming in and already a sympathy card arrived in the mail.  today I am feeling much more peaceful and less agitated.  here ...

into spirit.  my mother left her physical body this morning.  leaving us all sadder and yet joyful for her life well lived.  she did pretty ...

I went out on a few dates with a guy who told me he lived with the 30 second rule.  this simple rule was to be as open in communications wit...

trip my mother and I took together - just the two of us - was to San Francisco.  I had lots of frequent flyer miles and paid for the tickets...

through photos the last big trip my mom and I took together.  along with my aunt Phyllis, we took a cruise along the Dalmatian coast - visit...