Father’s Day 2019

Another year, another celebration. Today we brought the current peak of the Rochlin's patriarchal totem pole up to my Aunt's house in West Hills to ring in Father's Day with some barbecue and time out by the pool. Let me tell you, there are few things more magical than having some ribs, taking a dip …

Celebrating life

Earlier today, my Cousin Erica said it was fitting that we held my Grandma's celebration of life on the same day as the Oscars, because she loved that award show quite a bit. To be fair the Oscars are only coincidentally happening on the same day. We held our gathering today because her birthday would …

The things we leave behind

We started to go through some of the stuff my Grandma Rhea had in her room at the assisted living home today. I know that's a very morbid way to start one of these, so just trust me when I say I have a not quite as morbid reason for talking it over. Yesterday I …

A Grandmother’s memory

I was going to write something silly about the rain today, full of all kinds of jokey jokes about Rihanna and burning train tracks. But then I got home and found out my Grandma Rhea passed away unexpectedly this morning. Needless to say that dampened the desire to write anything jokey or superfluous, even if …

Good Gladeo Housekeeping

Shout out to video games for making me push off this post for half a week. Actually that isn't totally fair. Yes, video games are a large culprit, but I have also been busy running around a bit doing chores and such. For instance I had a lovely time today going out with my mom …