By happenstance Roger Hull was born in Lebanon, Tennessee, on November 30,1943…where his Dad was stationed before going to the European theater during World War II. In 1968 Barbra and I staged a birthday party for him…my first Roger Hull celebration with 54 more to come. He was very annoyed to not make it to […]
It was just two years ago when, on the same day, these two brothers departed this world. Roger was the oldest child (of six), Chris three years younger. Roger had, in a way most of us do not, almost total recall of his early childhood in Salamanca, New York. He told me late in his […]
My friend Larry died this week. I went east and saw him about a year ago and when we had a long goodbye hug we knew it was really goodbye, that Parkinson’s disease would take him away, and so it did. Larry came into my life because he and my friend Ellen (she of the […]
A big life change, like the loss of a partner, leaves you with a puzzle. How to put the pieces of your life back together in a meaningful way…how to think your way through the snarl of feelings and grief, but then new people, new stuff, new activities. HOW do we do this, how do […]
Yesterday I found this box in the studio…while searching for something else. I’d forgotten about this series of collages I made sometime in the last decade…using old photos and other bits and bobs. I called them “Notes to Myself” and I still understand what I was telling me and they delighted me, as old work […]
If you have an Apple product I sincerely hope you never encounter the rolling ball of death, like I have, on occasion. My computer was old by some standards (12 years) and had had two hard drive replacements. I really stopped writing this blog because I was doing it on my phone which, though possible, […]
Friday it will be 6 months since Roger Hull left us…the kind of anniversary I have learned the grief stricken notice. His birthday has passed, the big winter holidays have passed, I have achieved 80…which he really really wanted but wasn’t able to make. In some ways I’ve learned more in the last six months […]
On The Way 