Val was almost exactly a year older than me. 22 days separate our birthdays: March 8 (mine) and March 30 (Val’s). Every year when my birthday would swing around again, I would get this companionable, kid-like goofy happy feeling from being the same age as Val for most of March. Continue Reading
birthday
food memories
It’s Val’s 45th birthday today. A friend told me she celebrates her late nephew’s birthday each year with his favorite foods: pizza and beer; and sometimes cupcakes. She asked: What were Val’s favorites? Which made me happy to think about. So here are some. Val loved to eat kale and tempeh; halibut Continue Reading
birthday cake
Good job being born, Val Garrison. I celebrate you today and every day. The sun is out, and I saw the first purple nubbin of a lilac bud beginning to open. One of your favorites. Thanks for being one hell of a fine human being. I sure miss you. Brooke got you Continue Reading
pain’s better
Not so much pain this week as she had on Sunday/Monday. Such a dense week I haven’t had a second to fill anybody in. We are still here. Stay tuned. xo Deborah p.s. Tomorrow is Val’s birthday. What luck for so many of us that she was born! Happy birthday, Continue Reading
this is how we put our pants on
Thirteen years ago Val and I lived for eleven months in a camper van, vagabonding around the country. I am not (to my own disappointment) a morning person, but Val is quite sprightly in the mornings and would leap early out of bed to make coffee and rattle around the Continue Reading