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There is nothing worse than writing a silly, happy-go-lucky message to connect with an old friend on Facebook, and then, once you’ve been approved, to go to their page and see it filled with messages of bereavement. This is what happened to me today, when I got in touch with a good friend of mine, comedian [...] I made a photo-blog about adventures in Milwaukee that’s way too long to be a post. You can check it out here. Bernie Arieff, 1928-2009. Hoy entierran a mi tío Bernie, en el mismo cementerio donde yo, junto a varios tíos en trajes negros, cargué con el ataúd de mi tío Bobby hace un mes. Recuerdo que, al entrar en el cementerio, pasamos por la lápida de la mujer de Bernie. En ese momento, Bernie estaba en urgencias [...] Acabo de enterarme de que anoche murió mi otro tío, Bernie. El mes pasado, cuando vino desde Florida para visitar a su hermano Bobby en el hospital, se puso mal… supuestamente de pulmonía. Pero no mejoró, [...]
He was almost young enough to be my son in this photo. He joined the army to pay for his college education because there was no money in the family. They sent him down South — Biloxi, I think? — to learn the soldier stuff. It was weird being a Jew in the South. [...] Every day I wake up with a hole in my heart. Maybe ”hole” isn’t the word for it. It feels as if half my heart’s been ripped out. Yet the void inside my heart aches, like they say an arm or a leg still “aches” even after it’s been amputated. Phantom limbs. Phantom pains. The first thing I [...] My Uncle Bobby passed away this morning. I wrote a blog about him last month because I was lucky enough to be able to visit him for the first time in two years. I wrote about what a happy, childlike, generous person he was, and how he created happiness wherever he went. He and I were [...] For Bobby. |
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