BIRTHDAYS AND FORGIVENESS

Trying to stay positive is sometimes hard work. Today was Lennie’s birthday.  He would have been 64.  It was one of those melancholy days when I kept thinking back to when he had turned 61.  I had only known him for several months and had decided to throw him a...

VALENTINE’S DAY 2012

Today is Valentine’s Day.  It is one of the few sunny days that there has been here on the windward side of O’ahu in the Hawai’ian Islands. I am sitting in the backyard of the home that I lived in with Lennie. It was 3 years ago today that I first...

COPING WITH LOSS AT CHRISTMAS TIME

Most people say that this is the worst time of year if you are trying to deal with the death of someone you love.  I have a different opinion on this sentiment.  I am not coming from a psychology point of view, but one of experience, having just lost the man that I...

LOVE LETTER TO LENNIE

“When somebody love you, it’s no good unless she loves you….. all the way…..” It is late at night as I sit here at the desk while you sleep.  I am surrounded by photos of us.  Happy photos that I look at now, knowing that in every one you...

IN MEMORIUM

Georg Strobele was both my doctor and my friend.  It was a year ago today that he passed on.  We were the same age he and I.  He played squash, he ate healthy.  If ever you could say that someone really knew how to live life, you could say that about Georg.  I like to...