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I wrote this song about our marriage. It’s the first song I ever wrote. I used the guitar she bought me before we were married. I sat in the bed on the place where she died as I sang it. I even recorded it on her old phone. None of this was in my mindContinue reading “You and Me”

One of the most emotionally exhausting things is missing things about Julie that annoyed me when she was alive. This immediately leads to a feeling that I wasted some of our relationship. Now the opportunity has gone forever. All aboard the train of grief and self-loathing. One of those things was her tendency to fillContinue reading “Bottle Caps”

There are some things that can be postponed, like moving the Day of the Dead arrangements that adorn our home. There are other things that have to be dealt with on someone else’s timeline. Predominantly, these are financial and government forms. I hate dealing with these things. Removing her name from bank accounts, transferring retirementContinue reading “Idiots”

They say it comes it waves. Well, I sure say that. Here’s few of my waves. The day after Julie died, we went over to Sam’s Club and bought a giant (75″) TV. We exchanged the dark dining room with the bright family room, and set up the TV in what had been the diningContinue reading “Surfing”

If anyone read the first couple posts and noticed the bit at the end about the author: “I live in DC. My wife and kids live in Tucson. Everyone says the internet made the world smaller. We’ll see,” you may be wondering what that’s about. In early 2012, I left Tucson and went back toContinue reading “Close from Far Away”

Once upon a time in 1988 or so, I went to work at a yogurt shop in Portland. It was the second counter-service restaurant that I had worked. I was hired as the assistant manager, and primarily worked the evening shift. For anyone who has not worked in food service, the late shift people formContinue reading “Love Story”