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My Dad Left Us a Time Capsule. My Mom Left Us Instructions.
Read more: My Dad Left Us a Time Capsule. My Mom Left Us Instructions.I haven’t written that much about my mom. It’s time I did. She grew up on a farm, one of 13 children. She was hard-working and faithful. And during the last years of my dad’s life, when he had Alzheimer’s, she was his caregiver. After she was gone and we were going through our childhood…
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For Just a Few Hours…
Read more: For Just a Few Hours…“Stop! I’m not ready!” My brothers had finally loosened the last tabs on the lid of Dad’s 50-year-old time capsule. Twenty-eight family members had gathered in Missouri, and we’d spent months anticipating this moment. But suddenly, with the lid about to come off, I wasn’t quite ready for it to happen. Let me back up.…
Experiencing Time
Stories
It started with a 50-year-old time capsule, but there are so many more stories to tell. Stories about family, memories, things we’ve kept, things we’ve almost forgotten, and the ordinary moments that become more meaningful with time. Because that’s really what this is about: the human experience of time.
