The package was wrapped in some Mexican Day of the Dead cloth and tied with a bright woven sash. It was about ten inches square. It was very heavy. The package contained my brother, or what was left of him. My sister-in-law had already scattered half his ashes in a favorite spot out by Tampa […]

photo © 2011 Sagar Kumar | more info (via: Wylio)My brother called last night. He’s been in a hospital for the last week and a half, coming back from the brink of death one more time. Missing most of his digestive system, tumors spreading but slowed by liberal applications of chemotherapy, my brother just keeps […]

I woke up this morning thinking about gratitude The thing that I am most grateful for today is that my brother is on driveabout. His last scan showed a bunch of new little tumors but they aren’t going to start more chemo for a few weeks So he and my sister in law have gone […]