THE BEGINNING
"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things;of shoes and ships and sealing wax;of cabbages and kings." So that's what I'm going to do in this online space. Lately I have been thinking a lot about the "hereafter", not to be confused with the instances when I walk into a room and think,"What am I here after?" No, these thoughts are in the context of what we all have been taught, that there is life after death. As I stumble through my later years on this earth, I find myself thinking about that more that ever before. I keep wondering: do we really get to be with our loved ones who died before us?: do we finally get to see what God is like?: will we care? And so many more questions. I find that I am now in a "plan ahead" mode. I have never planned much ahead, always more of a spur-of-the-moment person. My second husband lived by the motto "Prior planning prevents piss-poor performance". He was probably right. I...