It was cold the morning she died. I awoke in the guest room to my step-father's light rapping on the door and a calm, yet ominous ...

After a couple of days in the hospital bed, we could all see changes in my mom. The Hospice nurses normalized her lack of appetite and not ...

My mom had been in the hospital bed for a day. She seemed to have calmed somewhat, but it was becoming more difficult to understand her wor...

I went for a drive one afternoon. I went to a Flea Market and bought my wife a knit cap embroidered with The Virgen de Quadalupe on it, I st...

My mom had started to fall out of her beloved bed and for safety, it was suggested (mandated, really) that we move her to a hospital bed. H...

My mom died in the morning. My step-father knocked at my door. I wasn't asleep, but rather waiting. He said, "Your mom's not ...

Last night the rain started about an hour from my mom’s house and was preceded by biblical clouds of some low-flying insect peppering the wi...

Yeah, well, we didn't leave today. I've been back to the house only twice since my mom died. The trip, anymore, is mired in things ...

Yes , tomorrow I return to the family home. Where I grew up. The place my parents bought for 64K when I was eight. The place with the divi...