death – R. J. Nello

The Widower

Yesterday, I was having what I had thought was an innocuous FaceTime with my father. There was our usual current

I wanted to share some U.S. Mother’s Day personal thoughts here – two days early. I choose to do that

My octogenarian in-laws have been thinking more than ever about what happens after one of them dies. After dinner last

I dread this: I have to call Dad in Pennsylvania – I haven’t spoken to him in about 5 days.

This morning I’m driving my now widower father, and my 44 year old sister (she lived with my parents, and

I received an encouraging and sympathetic email recently from the woman who forms the character basis for “Mrs. Hall-Surrey” –

After a parent dies, at some point inevitably you have to start to go through their possessions and what’s stored

I was messaging with my “chocolate cake delivering” cousin last evening. She’s feeling exceptionally down about her Dad and my

I delivered my mother’s eulogy at her funeral Mass back on Saturday. It was the toughest few pages I’d ever

My mother died yesterday afternoon. She passed away at her home due to complications from cancer. She was 72. Her