That was the year that was… and it had three big turning points.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/31/2023-in-brief-review/
“Dad, where is the core of the house?” the youngest asked me this morning, as I made his lunch for school.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2017/03/22/questions-and-answers/
For a number of reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the two and a half months between Rebecca’s second tumor being discovered and her death.
This morning, our youngest child Joshua attended his first day of kindergarten.
Late in the afternoon, we all drove over to Mayfield Cemetery to visit Rebecca’s gravestone, two years after her death.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/06/07/between-the-rain-and-the-sun/
On my first piece for Modern Loss, which explores my discovery that I experience survivor’s guilt.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/06/26/the-guilt-i-carry/
“Why are you crying?” I asked my son. He wasn’t actually crying so much as sniffling, but the expression on his face was enough to justify the question. He just shook his head, so I sat dow...
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/06/18/the-guilt-i-carry-2/
I wish so many things, all of them pointlessly, but one of the most piercing is this.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/05/31/into-each-life/
Twice I walked away from a loved one lying in a hospital bed. Twice something went terribly, horribly wrong.
There are two aspects of my parenting that have really helped me cope with the illness and death of my daughter. One was there long before she became ill, was in place before we had any kids; and...
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/09/24/presence-and-the-gift/
There is a sound a family makes that only its members can truly appreciate, and now a whole section has been silenced.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/26/the-silent-hole-in-the-world/
She was full of energy, our Rebecca.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/05/the-thief-of-light/
It’s the nature of cancer and its treatment that there are often incredibly difficult decisions to make on very little information with no real idea of the eventual outcome.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/05/15/blind-choices/
Conversations at bedtime, the playground, and bedtime.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/05/05/three-interludes/
There are so few things we can do for her now, so very few things, but we can do this.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/05/01/heroic-measures/