Michael Homan

People who we've met who have experienced the death of a child all told us that the annual anniversaries of the tragedy are difficult, and after going through our first anniversary of Gilgamesh's...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/10/death-anniversaries.html

 Therese's birthday was last weekend. There were fun parts about it, like Xy's pool, and the chocolate mousse that Kalypso and I made was great, but mostly it was sad because of Gil being go...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/08/thereses-birthday.html

Therese, Kalypso, and I went to vote today. We were sad to see Gilgamesh's name on the voting registration, immediately preceding Kalypso and me. They gave me an LR-34(79) form, also known as "St...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/07/gilgamesh-voted-once.html

Yesterday was Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers. My father William Homan passed away in 2007. His birthday was June 21st, so I always saved money by giving him one gift for both...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/06/fathers-day.html

I rarely remember my dreams. But when I awoke this morning I was in the middle of a very strange one. I was in the desert riding a camel, and it was not a very good camel. I was doing some sort o...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/05/dream.html

Today Therese, Kalypso, and I drove to Baton Rouge to see the place where Gilgamesh hit his head on the concrete. It's been more than six months since he died, and it took quite a bit of mental e...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/03/stupid-meaningless-place.html

This year it was our first Mardi Gras without our son Gilgamesh. It was difficult. I sat out most of it and laid low. I'm tired of running into people who tell me how sorry they are about Gil. Ot...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/03/mardi-gras-sans-gilgamesh.html

I very much liked this article by Thomas Harding. He witnessed the death of his 14-year-old son Kadian. Seven years later, he wrote a letter about advise he would give to himself when this traged...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/01/thomas-harding-letter.html

I had two dreams last night about Gilgamesh.  In the first we were in a small engine boat on a wide and swift river with some sort of a pet seal. We docked, and then I  saw a bear with ...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/01/two-dreams.html

I didn't know how much I loved my son until he was gone.

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2020/01/realization.html

I'm not a fan of 2019. It's for many reasons, but mostly because of death. The most difficult loss for me was my son Gilgamesh on September 17th. I also lost my sister Chris Homan on July 2nd, my...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2019/12/2019-good-riddance.html

When Gilgamesh died, we received 156 letters of condolence in the mail. There were many more emails, tweets, Facebook messages and comments, but 156 envelopes with 55 cent stamps were put in our ...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2019/12/condolence-letters.html

19 years ago today, Gilgamesh was born in Jerusalem.

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2019/11/19.html

Here are some of the posts from Facebook pertaining to Gilgamesh's accident: Sept 16 Yesterday our son Gilgamesh Homan fell off his skateboard and fractured the back of his skull rendering him un...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2019/11/here-are-notices-i-posted-on-facebook.html

Hi, it's been a while. I began this blog way back in 2003 as a means to write about my teaching. My intentions were partly altruistic, as I thought that this might make me a better teacher and he...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2019/11/gilgamesh-is-gone.html

A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to visit Poverty Point. I was blown away by place. I'm a big fan of archaeology in the Near East, and never was that interested in archaeology in the ...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2014/04/poverty-point-and-palestine.html

Check out this short and interesting animated film by Katherine Hogan. See if you can recognize Kalypso as a drawing. In To Wonder from Katherine Hogan on Vimeo.

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/09/in-to-wonder.html

I'm quickly becoming a very big fan of Pope Francis. His emphasis on mercy and inclusion rather than dogmatic enforcement is very refreshing and more in line with my views about Catholicism.

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/09/pope-francis.html

I received a very creative card from three of the people who worked with me in Area AA at Marj Rabba: Madeline, Phoebe, and Tova. It's full of inside jokes so I'll do my best to translate. The ca...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/08/card-from-marj-rabba.html

If you are interested in learning more about what's going on at Marj Rabba, where my two Xavier students Alexis Parker and Melissa Nguyen are excavating along with Gilgamesh and me, check out the...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/07/marj-rabba-updates-on-galilee.html

We just finished week two at Marj Rabba. Interesting site, great people. I've been enjoying learning more about the many mysteries of the Chalcolithic period. We work Sunday through Friday with S...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/07/rujm-el-hiri.html

I learned some valuable lessons yesterday. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem to Ein Gedi. As we'll be working at Marj Rabba soon, I wanted my students to learn more about the Chalcolithic ...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-gilgamesh-tried-to-kill-me-at-ein.html

The company that profits from red light cameras in Baton Rouge released a study claiming that yes, the red light cameras saved many lives over the past five years. In other shocking news, ad...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/07/150-merit-raises-for-teachers.html

Today I am the Chair of the Theology Department at Xavier University of Louisiana. But as the first Summer Session ends on Monday, there will no longer be a Chair of Theology. Instead, all of the...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-end-of-department-chairs-at-xavier.html

This is the summer of the mighty Marj Rabba.  I am heading there in early July with Gilgamesh and two of my brightest Xavier students: Melissa Nguyen and Alexis Parker. Leading the excavatio...

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2013/06/chalcolicious.html