Southern Middle Aged Mind

 So much for blogging being my skill. It's been four years.  All that drama is gone. Today's drama is dealing with the loss of my parents, a close friend, and friend with whom I was building a good relationship.  My mom died from cancer and my dad from kidney failure in 2020, just 3 months apart. The cancer had gotten into my mom's brain and she didn't remember my dad. That was probably good because I think he was the love of her life but they divorced after about 19 years of marriage when I was about 6 years old. She was so angry with him and couldn't get over it. Hopefully losing memory of him saved her some of that anguish about him. I hadn't spoken to my dad in about 30 years. Long story there, but I'd made my peace with him long before knowing that the last thing he ever said to me was in 1996 at my sister's funeral. My close friend died from complications from COVID-19 at the end of 2020. He'd just won a seat in the United States Congress. I wa...