Category: Personal

  • A Passing in the Acres

    Although I don’t speak a lot about my family, it’s worth mentioning this because it’s so recent and so necessary. My wife died on April 3. We had been together for over 32 years. Death is just as important as life, as I’ve heard over the years. We learn about death when we’re young, and…

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  • Happy New Year in the Acres

    Since this is a relatively new blog, I don’t have a lot to share in terms of New Years content. In my family we didn’t spend a lot of time with resolutions for the New Year, because generally we didn’t spend a lot of time making good on them, and like most people, if we…

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  • An unusual birthday

    I was just discharged from the hospital for the second time in 3 weeks on my birthday. I hadn’t been expecting to be in the hospital again at all, though I guess one might suggest I had a hint the previous Monday when I had to go to the ER with a rather nasty UTI.…

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