What would Mike do? By Sheila Thomson, January 19, 2023 [Sheila posted this to the Memories page back in 2023,…
This day is still hard… it probably always will be. I woke up feeling heavy and sad. But I’m so…
Today, February 19, 2023, Mike would have turned 52, and I don’t know what to feel. Five years ago, I…
July 4, 2021 Today was a hard day. July 14 should be the day to fear. The two-year mark since…
On February 19, 2021, when Mike would have turned 50. I took the day off work and set off for…
One Saturday in December 2018, I was driving from Riverside to Long Beach to visit my sister Jeanne and her…
After Mike’s funeral, when we were packing up the apartment in Rancho Cucamonga, I found a stapled copy of a…
by Michael Thomson (apologies to John Fante & Charles Bukowski) Read About the Sombrero On Sunday night, Marfa and I…
The world lost another beautiful human: On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, John Prine died in Nashville of complications from COVID-19.…
For many of us, being isolated at home with the news and our pandemic anxieties drives us more desperately than…