Tube Tops & Turtlenecks

It's been about a week since the news that hit us like a hammer was announced. In that space of time, I have been gifted with being able to take compassion leave from my work and I have packed a bag and spent a few nights at mom and dads. Jodi takes the other nights. What is it like to live with someone in their last days? Wow. It is a combination of pain, joy, laughter, tears, aching, loneliness, emptiness, privilege, honour. Yesterday I took dad for a walk - him in a wheelc

My next blog was going to be my wonderful yard transformation - and that may come yet - but that kind of a normal post will have to wait until I can see normal again. Last July I walked beside normal as my dad told us he had cancer. At that time it felt my very breath was taken away and that life could just not go on. But it did.... we walked beside normal - dad took chemo and surgery like a trooper and life started to cross over the yellow line to normal. Dad was figuring ou