Okay, so I haven’t posted in a while. Not the typical negligence on my part this time. This time, my lack of communication is actually warranted, if not expected.
So . . . my mother passed away on February 18th. She had been struggling for nearly a year with breast cancer, and it finally got the best of her. I never blogged about this because she was extremely secretive about her illness. My family members didn’t know — most of her friends didn’t know.
We had one memorial service last week, and then another yesterday in her hometown. It sounds pretty horrible to have to sit through two memorial services, and it IS horrible, but not as bad as I imagined. The first one was very musical, and people have told me that it was uplifting. The second was mostly family members who were able to drive in for the day. Bad, yes, but I was happy to see some of the relatives that I only seem to see at funerals, since we haven’t had a wedding in a long time.
There are few things that you can predict when you get together with family. There are dynamics that always seem to be present, no matter how old we get. More on that later. My family is actually pretty crazy, and there can be tons of stories about them. But, as I’m sitting in the lobby of my hotel, using the Business Services, I think the craziness would be much better addressed at a later time.
Anyway, to answer the vital questions — my father’s okay, I’m okay. We’re both task-mastering our way through this. I keep thinking that I’ll hit a brick wall one day, but I’m doing everything in my power to prevent that from happening. One day at a time.
In the meantime, I do have a new column that released — yes, in the midst of this I’ve managed to keep my deadlines. Don’t as me how. The new one is in Metromix, and this time I rated Exposure in Chicago’s South Loop. Enjoy.
