Annus Horribilus
Mar. 13th, 2024 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI am not generally inclined to defend Joe Biden, but on the issue of remembering the year that his son, Beau, died, I am sympathetic. I desperately do not *want* to remember when my parents (or Gretchen's mother) died and reconstruct the year that these things happened via happier events, which takes a moment.
My mother died the year after I married Gretchen.
My father died in December, just before the Rams won the Super Bowl.
And Gretchen's mother died just before the Chicon where I was running the Exhibits Division.
That's how I remember these things.
But it takes a minute.
My mother died the year after I married Gretchen.
My father died in December, just before the Rams won the Super Bowl.
And Gretchen's mother died just before the Chicon where I was running the Exhibits Division.
That's how I remember these things.
But it takes a minute.