For Joe

Stormy Weather 
The wind howled
It blew tumbleweed across the road
And it came right at my car.
There was no time to stop and I hit it.
It exploded and tiny branches went everywhere
It disappeared and broke into pieces
 
I imagined my grief as that tumbleweed
Rolling around in my life during the year
Then the holidays come
Bringing the day you died [...]

The Pain Just Never Goes Away

Today would have been Joe’s 41st birthday.  Joe was killed when a truck hit his car in 1988 – he was 21 years old at the time of his death.  The horror happened in the first part of December – I went to work and took off at lunch to buy his stocking stuffers (a big [...]