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August 2020

September 5, 2020 Single Malt Monkey

It was a beautiful summer morning. Life was going about its business and noon was approaching on 31st July as I walked my mother down the quiet corridors. Suddenly she looked frail and weary and the arm I rested around her shoulder for a few strides seemed impossible comfort. She hadn’t slept for 30 hours… Continue reading August 2020

Tagged bereavement, fatherhood, grief, loss, parenthood5 Comments
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The Irreplaceable Max

April 27, 2012 Single Malt Monkey

  We never had pets when I was kid so I’d never counted myself an animal person, really. Animals always inflamed my Dad’s debilitating asthma so we just didn’t keep them. A few years after Fi and I got together we took in two six month old black kittens. Fi had always been a cat woman.… Continue reading The Irreplaceable Max

Tagged black cats, cat cancer, cats, cats as friends, loss, obituary30 Comments

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