Yeah yeah yeah, I still celebrate christmas even though I'm atheist, old habits and customs are hard to break. Our christmas celebrations never involved a god, just good ole giving and receiving gifts and enjoying family. Well it's going to be a little different this year, a couple of firsts' for me.



As most of you know my mom passed away before Halloween this year and this will be the first year ever that I won't see her on christmas eve. I used to get her a gift she could use, like… Continue

I attended my mom's funeral today. My son Gary and his girlfriend are deaf so we were interpreting for them the funny stories that the pastor was telling. Of course we laughed and thought of my mom.

We didn't attend the dinner afterwards, we (my kids and their spouses and kids) went to a restaurant for lunch.

You know, it's hard enough that my mom died and I will never go fishing with her again, but to have someone say that we laughed all through the service for my mom was just… Continue