Anniversary Bliss

Monday, October 27th, marks our one-year wedding anniversary. There is much I could write about the past year and about being married, but time does not permit such reminiscing as I will shortly be embarking on our anniversary escape to a cabin in beautiful Hocking Hills, in southeastern Ohio. We’ve got three days of hottubbing, hiking, [...]

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Death Comes to Us All – Part III

In my first post about my grandfather’s death, I mentioned that in dealing with my grief over this loss, I’ve also been faced with a situation I’ve never had to think about before. How, as an atheist, do I fit the death of a loved one into my worldview?
Once again, this is something I’ve never [...]

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Death Comes to Us All – Part II

Funerals are one of the last rituals we retain in the modern world, and one of the very few that even “non-believers” like me participate in. A professor of mine commented that she feels that funerals are the last gift of the dead to their loved ones, providing us with a chance to gather together, [...]

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Death Comes to Us All – Part I

Attending my grandfather’s funeral on Tuesday marked the first time that I have ever been at a funeral truly for me, for my grief, to say goodbye to someone I loved. I was always at prior funerals to provide comfort to someone else, or not so much to provide comfort even, because I have been [...]

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Eulogy for a Grandfather

Last Thursday morning my grandfather died just as he was preparing to make the trip from Toledo to southern Kentucky for a big family reunion. I wrote about my visit with him and my grandmother last month, and I am grateful beyond words that I was able to see him so recently, and that he [...]

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