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by Laurie Rockenbeck | May 1, 2011 | Cooking, Grief, Holidays, May Day, Mourning, Moving On, Uncategorized
I have a love-hate relationship with ritual. I usually love the first couple of times through something, but then I end up hating too much repetition. How many times will I sing “Merry Month of May” in my life? I’ve already lost track, and we have...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Mar 31, 2011 | Grief, Politics, Uncategorized
I’m the first to admit to having scorned NIMBYism in the past. When fueled by self-centeredness and a lack of any nod to “the common good” I find it more than a little unpalatable. It’s taken me a while to admit that I have a full-blown case of...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 16, 2010 | Grief, Memories, Moving On, Parenting
When my daughter set up a search for her compass to do her geometry homework the other night, it was nowhere to be found. It took me a long thirty seconds to decide whether or not to go ahead and cop to the fact that I had a way better compass only a few feet away. I...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jul 20, 2010 | Grief, Moving On
I was plowing through the fourteen inch stack of mail on my desk when I came across an envelope from the attorney my brother used to get through Mom’s estate stuff. A few months ago, I marked the third anniversary of her death in this blog in Marking Time....
by Laurie Rockenbeck | May 4, 2010 | Grief, May Day, Mourning, Moving On
I remember when Bill and I figured out our wedding date and called relatives to let them know. My Aunt M. was angry because we chose to have it on June 24th. She said, “Oh, you can’t have it on that day! That’s the day daddy died.” I was...
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