Category Archives: Family

It was one year ago today that the life of my beloved Waltraut (known to most of her U.S. friends as “Val”) was celebrated and commemorated at her funeral.  The anniversary of her passing was just a few days prior, on … Continue reading →

I did not post the passing of my sweetheart here on my blog, but I did so on Facebook.  It has since been a very, very busy week and I didn’t have time to post anything, anywhere.  But her funeral … Continue reading →

In the heat of my last post I indicated that my wife’s cancer had spread everywhere and was soon going to kill her, and at the time that was her surgeon’s fear, given the advanced state of the main tumor.  … Continue reading →

If it were me, I’d pretty much know what do about this.  But it isn’t.  If it were me, I’d at least feel a little bit in control of the outcome.  But it isn’t.  So it is out of my … Continue reading →

My earlier post about what seems to be a relartively close connection to the Queen of England had to do with an acquaintanceship chain therein — where Dave, my brother’s friend, was actually acquainted with Princess Di.  I can actually … Continue reading →

I don’t know why random thoughts like this pop into my head with such regularity, but there it is and I might as well embrace it.  Well, it turns out that in terms of the Small World Phenomenum (better known, perhaps, … Continue reading →