Last Wednesday — a week ago today — I started feeling a little “off”. By the following night I was way, way off. Flat-out sick, to be exact. The weekend found me so ill I didn’t want to move. To do so meant I’d be coughing my fool head off… I’d be finding the shortest […]
Guest Post: Taken Too Soon
by J.R. Smith. I’m 27 years old, and I’ve been following the Diviney blog for about 3 years now. I have felt for Ryan’s family, and have loved reading the incredibly articulate and gut-wrenching way that they have expressed their grief for Ryan over the years as birthdays and milestones that Ryan should have experienced […]
Groundhogs and Butterflies
The Year was 1985… The day was the typical dreary, gray overcast that is familiar to anyone who has experienced a December in Pennsylvania. Sue and I were visiting her parents over college break. I was driving her 1975 Mercury Monarch. Sue was in the passenger’s seat and her Aunt was in the back. We […]
Go to Hell. Go Directly to Hell.
I hate the first week of November. Hate it! I guess I always have too, because now there is no fantasy that any remnant of summer is still in the air. Those eighty-degree days are long gone, at least in my neck of the woods. Taking the dogs out in the morning requires a jacket […]
How Will We Make it Through Another Day?
I wonder what she’s dreaming? If often think about this when I’m padding around the house in the middle of the night and my wife, Sue, is sleeping. Sometimes I actually know… and that’s worse. Much worse. These are the times when she moans. Or cries out. Or a tear rolls down her check. Sadly, […]