in case you thought i forgot, originally uploaded by JKönig. I discovered this photo several months ago on Flickr along with the poignant, extended caption. It’s been made available by JKönig via the Creative Commons License. It feels like a rare find; an actual photograph reflecting the collective experience of many Generation X children of divorce. […]
A Word in Due Season
About 11 of 12 years ago, my friend Louisa told me something no one had ever told me before and no one has told me since. She would not remember it and I would not forget it. I told her this yesterday within the context of her leaving her position as Editor-in-Chief of Oklahoma Today. […]
The Way Things Should Be
We’ll have it good We’ll have the life we knew we would My word is good — From the Plain White Ts and Hey There Delilah The Way Things Should Be One day, several years ago when Juliette was in preschool, she had a particularly bad day. I asked her how she would like things to […]
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…Now there’s a beautiful river in the valley ahead There neath the oaks bough soon we will be wed Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees Ill wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me –From Springsteen’s If I Should Fall Behind Happy Anniversary, Robert! The other […]
Easter Sunday 2010
Here are a few of the Easter Sunday 2010 pictures I snapped earlier today. Juliette said this looked like a chef costume. Hahahaha! Pretty happy for 815 in the morning. Daddy The chocolate bunny Bridgy is holding is white chocolate. I wonder why. When you’re four, you only wear a white suit once. We’re starting […]
Losing A Parent To Alzheimer’s Is Devastating
In the early days of my father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, I visited him several times a week. I picked him up every Saturday morning in my Jeep and took him to breakfast at IHOP. Sometimes, Robert and I visited him during evenings for coffee. We’d wheel him down to the cafeteria, which he called the mess hall. There was […]
Generation X and the Challenges of Marriage
I try to stay up on the Gen X content, particularly blog posts, but my Halloween obsession has caught me falling behind. Thus, if not for a tweet from @andi_fisher, I might have missed the latest post from My Generation X, a blog written by a man in Indiana. The title of the post is […]