family Dear Fiona… The thing I remember most about your first few days on this planet was the anxiety. The actual birth was an ordeal in and of itself, but barely 24 hours later nurses were shoving us out of the hospital, giving two young adults with the least amount of experience around
random Remembering my uncle Anthony This past weekend, I went down to Monterey Bay, CA to go out on a boat into open waters where we spread the ashes of my favorite uncle, my mom's kid brother who was born about ten years after she was. He died pre-pandemic of an aggressive cancer