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Miss You On This Day Dad
You are juggling oranges in the backyard and making Labrador pups appear out of thin air. You are yellow roses, root beer floats and clinging to the back of the windsurf board as we raced over Lake Huron, telling me to watch my toes in case of sharks. You pushed my buttons, and I pushed…
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Kickstart my Campaign to Self-Publish The High-Flying Adventures of Captain Grief
It is no secret that I have been angling towards something bigger and after many years I have found a hybrid publisher. I will be working with Iguana Publishing to crowd fun and raise the money to publish my blog which has become a memoir called The High-Flying Adventures of Captain Grief. I welcome any…
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Reflections and Pumpkins
There is a specific kind of loss for me in the fall, an especially heavy kind weighted with longing. For those who knew Kara and I this is the time of year that Kara passed the incubation period of blastomycosis (the toxic mould that killed her) and began her slow decline. By Halloween she was…
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Just Another Day
Today began like any other day. Things to do, kids to watch, stuff to cook except this is not just another day. Remember the band Extreme? The song “Hole Hearted” and the lyric “there’s a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you?” Well after 14 years these are the days where…
The High-Flying Adventures of Captain Grief 