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and Life Goes On…

Friday, May 22, 2009 No Comments

Since my mother, Mary Albers,  passed away, I’ve felt rather listless. Mom had a knack for helping me put life into perspective. And, now that she’s “shuffled off this mortal coil”…I’ve felt a little out of my element… so to speak. It’s one thing to know that you are OK, but it’s completely another to [...]

Mother’s Odd Fashion Sense

Saturday, October 18, 2008 No Comments

The family is celebrating both mine and my step-father’s birthday’s this weekend. This is the first time we’ve been together as a family since my mother’s, Mary Albers, funeral. We’ve been going through Mom’s jewelry and got a real kick out of the items she had stuffed in her Korean-style jewelry cabinet.
And now for a [...]

Sigh

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 2 Comments

I finally constructed my ‘door-as-desk’ project and am now placing my belongings in a more fashionable place: my desk (as opposed to the kitchen table). However, my evening unpacking has lead me to rediscover a small piece of paper. On the folded scrap of white printer paper, I inscribed the following note:

HR – 128
BP – [...]

Mary Albers: A New Chapter

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 No Comments

Monday night at 8:23pm, in the Palliative Care section of the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City, my mother, Mary Albers, slipped quietly from our world and into God’s hands. It is difficult to moment to describe, but was certainly the weirdest, yet most awe inspiring moment I have ever witnessed…and one will never [...]