David Anderson

My writing desk is surrounded by joy. There’s the latest drawing by my granddaughter depicting her conception of her picture being taken by her mother, whose outstretched cell phone captures both their biggest-grin faces, and both – accurately drawn – with lots of hair. “And that’s you grandpa,” she said, pointing to the stick figure […]

This is about you. This is about anyone and everyone who has (and truth be told, who is there who has not?) suffered a life-shattering loss. This is about those whose heart has been broken, stepped on, crushed, and who, weeping on their knees, begin, blinded by tears, gathering up the shards of what remains. […]

As most of my readers know I lost my dearest treasure on all this earth to cancer just 11 months ago. I have begun the arduous task of sorting through what to keep, and what to discard, after 50 years of marriage. The collectables go to the kids. The items with still some use go […]

Actually, I don’t know who once sat in the pictured old rocking chair. I don’t even remember where I took the picture. I just found it last evening in one of the many boxes I’ve been removing from the basement, stored there for nearly a half-century. I can picture her however, as she once had […]

Just a pair of miniature Dutch shoes and some old books are among the remaining items left that will soon depart for their new home with her children. She was Dutch, loved tulips, and loved to have her husband read to her from those old books. There are memories there in those tear-stained ancient romance […]

Down feathers swirled and billowed in the rear view mirror, an instant summer snow storm behind our green Volkswagen bug. We were setting off on our honeymoon a half-century ago, going camping in the far northern wilderness reaches of Canada. The trunk had come open and our pillows flew out on either side, and there […]

You see them everywhere today. On this special day of heart-shaped ballons and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, couples stroll hand-in-hand, couples sit gazing at one another over candlelight, couples on social media post their photos proclaiming their years of love for one another, and even shy highschoolers cast loving glances then quickly look away hoping […]

We gathered last evening for our weekly dinner together, as many of our family as could make it. Slightly less than 11 months ago we had all been here bedside in the family room to say a most tearful goodbye to my wife of 50 years, mother of four, grandmother of 10. There in the […]

He was king with numerous opportunities to rule well during his eight year reign. But he had not. He had achieved nothing for his country or people that qualified as a distinguishable accomplishment of merit. Nothing. The people he had ruled were glad when he departed. “He passed away to no one’s regret,” read one […]