Life

When I wrote this I was fighting a miserable cold. It was the absolute worst I’d felt in forever. Nearly 20 years later I’m fighting a bizarre sinus infection, so wash your hands frequently and take your zinc and C. In November of 2004 I had returned to Houston with a full heart, a tragic…

My mother’s only sister, my aunt Yvonne, died in May of 2006. She slipped away quietly after perhaps a stroke or some other such quick means of escape. She will be laid to rest without much fanfare, no real funeral, perhaps a graveside service, then the small gathering of family will go home. My aunt…