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Wow. Hard to wrap my brain around the fact that today marks one year since Dina died. Where did the time go? I can still recall every detail about that morning as if it were happening right now. ...

I just realized that last night, April 6, marked one year since Dina and I last slept in the same room.  Last year I stayed with her at the hospital for this weekend after her father died.  So that...

Tag was my father-in-law. That was his nickname but that’s all he was known as. Many people wouldn’t know who you were talking about if you called him Michael. He had six sisters and three...

I just realized that last year Easter was on 3/31.  I'm not a practicing Catholic but always do Easter dinner with my family.  As it turns out that was the last holiday Dina was alive for.  She...

It was a big day a year ago today. After 100 days split between the Cardiac Surgery ICU and the Respiratory Acute Care Unit at Mass General Dina was on the move. She moved to Spaulding Rehabilitation...

Yesterday was Hannah’s 4th birthday. Yes, she's a St. Patrick's Day baby!  It’s crazy that she is already 4. Seems like she was just born yesterday. Even crazier though is the fact that Dina...

2/20/2013 (had hoped to post this last week). After 2+ months Dina was transitioned from the Cardiac Surgical ICU to the Respiratory Acute Care Unit. This was a big move but also bittersweet. The...

I'm sitting at work listening to my iPod (because apparently my company thinks allowing us to stream music will have disastrous consequences) and I have a playlist of classic rock songs going with...

2/16/2013. A year ago yesterday was yet another date among many that I will always remember.  It was a Saturday last year and Dina was having a hard time that week.  She wasn't herself.  She was...

Hard to believe that today marks 10 months since Dina died. Even harder to believe is that this was not the first thing on my mind this morning. It actually didn’t occur to me until I was in the...

Lately the little things have been getting me.  Tonight was another example.  I recently brewed a few batches of beer with my two brothers and some cousins.  Tonight my younger brother came over...

1/29/2013. This was a big day one year ago. Dina had been making slow but steady improvements over the previous month and a half. There was still a long road ahead but everything indicated she was on...

There are a few Christmas songs that Hannah likes listening to year round (much to my disappointment!).  Yesterday while I was making dinner she asked me to put one of them on.  Since I was busy I...

1/27/2014.  It was a Sunday last year.  It was the morning and I was doing stuff around the house or playing with Hannah, I don’t remember exactly.  Then my phone rang.  I had to look at it for...

Well that was fun.  A nice wave of grief/sadness consumed my ride to work this morning.  It was the first one in a while, and as usual, came mostly out of nowhere.  I think a song may have touched...