Category: Family
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Rest in Peace, Randy
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Friday we laid Randy’s cremains to rest at Sarasota National Cemetery. The ceremony, with military honors including a three-gun salute, was beautiful, but somber and heart wrenching. Close to 50 people, some of whom were surprises to me, some who traveled a very long way to help lay him to rest,… Read more
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Morning Walks with Randy
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been walking for more than 3 weeks now. It’s been good for me. And for 2 weeks I’ve been going to the community park near my home to walk around the lakes instead of on the blacktop up and down the boring street by my house. The best part is that,… Read more
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Life After A Death
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor those of you who might be new here, my beloved husband, Randy, to whom I’d been married 50 years, 5 months, 14 days, died two weeks ago today. On February 1 he went to the ER with some ocular disturbances coupled with some numbness in his right hand. Within hours, after… Read more
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They Say Grief is A Journey
Reading Time: 5 minutesAbout an hour and a half after I posted last week’s blog where my P.S. said Randy was knocking on heaven’s door that morning, he quietly and peacefully drew his last earthly breath. I’m glad St Peter, or whoever is in charge of gatekeeping up there, didn’t make him stand knocking for… Read more
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Every Day, Run-of-the-Mill Miracles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the past 4 years, as Randy has written posts for Our High Places, he often details what he calls God Winks. He and I first heard the term God Winks years and years ago when we became friends with a much older couple. Randy was still running our pressure washing service… Read more
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The Cancer Life Rollercoaster
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve never liked roller coasters. I’ve ridden only a few by choice, and those were pretty tame considering some of the coasters open to the public in 2026. I could go off on a tangent here and tell you about roller coasters with names like Tormenta Rampaging Run, Wonder Woman Flight of… Read more
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(It’s Our) Honor Flight
Reading Time: 5 minutesBeing a military veteran in the United States defines you in many ways. This is especially true as you age and think back on what you accomplished in your life. There’s a generation, now almost gone, who served in World War II. I always thought the soldiers who fought in WWII were… Read more
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An Existential Monologue
Reading Time: 5 minutesI wanted to call this post An Existential Soliloquy which I think sounds interesting, though a bit pretentious. But as I so often do when I write this blog, I looked up the word soliloquy to make sure I am using it correctly, lest someone who cares about that sort of thing… Read more
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A Holding Pattern
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week’s post generated an outpouring of support and response that completely overwhelmed me and Randy. So, first and foremost, thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. It was a good week, with a lot happening with Randy’s medical support team. He met with a local oncologist on Wednesday. We… Read more
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A Diagnosis, Play by Play
Reading Time: 5 minutesFair warning: Last week I promised I’d break down everything we know so far, and what the doctors are going to do about the cancer diagnosis Randy received a few weeks ago. I know I should document all of this so there’s a good record. And I know there are people who… Read more