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Wednesday Musings: Big, Big News!

Posted on September 11, 2024 by dbjackson

Yes, I’ve been quiet for a while. Things are okay. Really. More than okay, actually. But Nancy and I have been hella busy. With travel, with family stuff. But most of all with the big news that is the subject … Continue reading →

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Monday Blues: The Hardest Birthday

Posted on May 6, 2024 by dbjackson

Yes, another post about our daughter and our loss. A part of me shies from this, wonders if I have written about her too much. “Write something upbeat,” I tell myself. “Something funny, something — anything — that isn’t about … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: How Am I? Well, It’s Complicated…

Posted on March 18, 2024 by dbjackson

Back in November, just a few weeks after the death of our older daughter, I wrote of the difficulty I regularly encountered answering the question, “How are you doing?” At the time, my emotional state was a moving target. I … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: My Mother and My Daughter

Posted on February 5, 2024 by dbjackson

My mother would be 102 years old today, which speaks to a) how very old I am, and b) how uncommonly old she was when she and my father had me. I was born at the end of the Baby … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year and a Musings Post Celebrating Grief (Yep!)

Posted on January 3, 2024 by dbjackson

For years now, I have written New Year’s posts, often more than one per holiday. In December, I have often taken stock of the year that’s ending, evaluating my accomplishments, examining my disappointments, trying to make sense of an entire … Continue reading →

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Checking In and Saying Thanks

Posted on November 15, 2023 by dbjackson

It’s been a little over three weeks since Alex, our older daughter, lost her two and a half year battle with cancer. It feels like more. It feels like less. We have had celebrations of her life in New York … Continue reading →

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Alexis Jordan Berner-Coe, 1995-2023

Posted on October 23, 2023 by dbjackson

This is the post I never wanted to write. The one I dreaded, the one that was, not so long ago, unthinkable, and, more recently, heartrendingly inevitable. Our darling older daughter, Alexis Jordan Berner-Coe, has died, after a two and … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Missing a Missing Friend

Posted on April 3, 2023 by dbjackson

We lived in Australia for a year back in the mid 2000s, when our daughters were in primary school. Alex, the older one, turned 11 while we were there. Erin turned 7. Both girls were already swimming competitively here at … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: What Matters? Part III — People and Relationships

Posted on January 16, 2023 by dbjackson

We lost my older brother a bit over five years ago, and, as you might expect, in the aftermath of his death, my emotions were roiled and at times conflicted. Among other things, I was angry with him. Deeply, almost … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Three Years Ago This Weekend

Posted on October 9, 2020 by dbjackson

Three years ago this weekend, we were in Massachusetts at Wachusett Meadow, a Massachusetts Audubon Society wildlife sanctuary, for a memorial service honoring my brother, Bill. This glorious site was one of his favorites in the world, and we dedicated … Continue reading →

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