Tag: New haven

October 14th: Two years

Saturday, October 14th was the second anniversary of Kathy’s passing. The first one was the first one. Nothing more. Nothing less. The second was easier but different. I cut myself some slack about what I had accomplished. Or not. Or the inevitable, “And how are YOU doing, Peter?” inquiries. Before the first anniversary, I was still going through things. Planning… Read more →

Ashes. Ashes. We all fall down.

Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies; Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down. I kept going back and forth about Kathy’s ashes. If you remember, her ‘cremains’ arrived on September 22. A friendly postal worker delivered them in a cardboard box from Harvard Medical School. I had over a year to mull it over: from the time she passed away;… Read more →