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King for a Day 5 Aug 2012 | 04:27 am
He was a Leo. King of all around him. Today he would have been 64. Today I would have called him and sung a horrible rendition of "Happy Birthday". He would have answered the phone and, instead of ...
Painting 19 Feb 2012 | 06:53 pm
Today was the day that the master bedroom began it's makeover. (Note earlier posts on the new house) Today it was just me and Justin, one of the contractor's employees. Justin likes music. And he ha...
Gunsmoke 18 Feb 2012 | 05:26 am
I had been thinking that I hadn't heard from Ward in quite a while. I was afraid that there would be no more stories of Dan. Then this email came. ========= "We grew up on Westerns. Hoppy, Gene, Ro...
Deer 5 Feb 2012 | 06:32 pm
A long time ago, I got a call from Dan. He was on the side of the road in Montana. He had been driving home from the truck center. He had been driving for a few days and he was tired. But when he cal...
Livid 2 Feb 2012 | 12:51 pm
Dan would be livid. Absolutely livid. Not because I am upset but because HE would find this kind of lily-livered, politically motivated, STUPID decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation INSANE. You...
The New Place 31 Jan 2012 | 01:14 pm
We have purchased a new house. It is ten miles from the nearest hamlet and 20 miles from where I work in San Luis Obispo. It is nestled in the Coast Range in what is considered high desert. There a...
76 Trombones 13 Jan 2012 | 05:26 pm
Ward is a wealth of stories about Dan. Things I had no way of knowing (I was the baby sister, after all.) and Bill had left for college when most of these things happened. But when I discussed the la...
Others Remember 9 Jan 2012 | 06:20 pm
We are still finding people who do not know that Dan is dead. It is so hard to say that. I don't like to think that he is. He is just gone and somehow that thought lets me believe somewhere that he w...
At the Feet of Hemingway 6 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
Dan loved the writer's conference that is held every year in Idaho. Bill would (at first) sneak him in and later got him tickets. Dan just absorbed all of the intellectual discussions and thoughts. He...
Knees 29 Dec 2011 | 07:29 pm
Ok. I will admit that what I am about to write is a little weird. Maybe it is just how I put things together in my brain. And that is known to be very weird. But when I think of Dan, like when I am ...
