Inside: Travel well, Hua Davis | Exhale fat | Articles re: mental toughness | The 40% rule | How to deal Hua Davis was more than a hiker. She was an ultra mega hiker and a pillar in the hiking and outdoor community in the Mid-Atlantic. I didn’t know Hua personally but I knew of her. She…
Thaddeus “Teddy” Corwin. It’s kind of surprising that that’s the only photo I have of Teddy, considering I’ve known him since, like, 1989. And he sent or gave me that one. Teddy was 35 and died of Leukemia on November 23rd. Leukemia and no health insurance. I hadn’t seen him in a long while. Not…
Fiction: You know how I do. The line between fact and fiction is blurry if you can find the weak spots. Recently, I went to the zombie exhibit at the zoo. Sometimes taking photos is the only thing that makes me want to be anywhere near crowds of people. Not the regular outdoors exhibit, but…
Even though he didn’t like it, I still think of him as Little Junie. The juniors in our family are called Junie. So if you’re a third, well … Little Junie. He is my cousin; my mother’s brother’s son. He was definitely different than a lot of the family in that he was outgoing and…
Inside: The kind of person I want to be; Suicidal mindset HOW NOT TO START A BLOG ENTRY I’m watching “Epic Yachts” right now. Caught the end of “Epic Pools”. I’ve seen “Epic RVs”, “Epic Houseboats” and “Epic Log Cabins”. I don’t have anything against money or rich people as a class or socioeconomic demographic.…
Felisa was my stepmother. She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer a few months ago and wasn’t responding to chemotherapy. Back in October of 2010, when my father passed away, I saw Felisa for the first time in about ten years at a small family meeting where my big sister was letting the family know…
My sister left a message late last night. I saw/listened when I woke up this morning. I didn’t expect it to be good news but man. Grandma Young, my father’s mother passed away yesterday. The last two times I saw Grandma were at Aunt Norma’s funeral back in March and my dad’s funeral (and funeral…
Today is Sunday, October 2nd, 2011. It would have been my father’s 65th birthday. He died last year, October 17, 2010. He turned 64 in a persistent vegetative state. I wrote this: Rest in Peace, Arthur G. Young About this time last year, my big sister and I had given the doctors permission to remove our dad…
Holy $&@! That was my immediate response yesterday morning when I heard the news. Just about everything has been said about the subject, it seems. Listening to the radio and TV in the past 36+ hours, I’ve even heard people use the same phrasing that I had been thinking. Makes me wonder why I’m writing…
This is going to be short. But I wanted to say something. I hadn’t seen Aunt Norma for years until my dad went to the emergency room, unresponsive, last August (2010). If you don’t have an Aunt Norma in your family, you missed out. She was sweet — she’d address all of us kids…
