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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Stupid Meaningless Place

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Today Therese, Kalypso, and I drove to Baton Rouge to see the place where Gilgamesh hit his head on the concrete. It's been more than si...
Monday, March 02, 2020

Mardi Gras Sans Gilgamesh

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This year it was our first Mardi Gras without our son Gilgamesh. It was difficult. I sat out most of it and laid low. I'm tired of runni...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Thomas Harding Letter

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I very much liked this article by Thomas Harding. He witnessed the death of his 14-year-old son Kadian. Seven years later, he wrote a letter...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Two Dreams

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I had two dreams last night about Gilgamesh.  In the first we were in a small engine boat on a wide and swift river with some sort of a...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Realization

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I didn't know how much I loved my son until he was gone.
Monday, December 30, 2019

2019 Good Riddance

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I'm not a fan of 2019. It's for many reasons, but mostly because of death. The most difficult loss for me was my son Gilgamesh on Se...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Condolence Letters

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When Gilgamesh died, we received 156 letters of condolence in the mail. There were many more emails, tweets, Facebook messages and comme...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

19

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19 years ago today, Gilgamesh was born in Jerusalem.
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Facebook Posts

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Here are some of the posts from Facebook pertaining to Gilgamesh's accident: Sept 16 Yesterday our son Gilgamesh Homan fell off his s...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Gilgamesh is Gone

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Hi, it's been a while. I began this blog way back in 2003 as a means to write about my teaching. My intentions were partly altruistic...