This was a hard one. Penny had a form of lymphoma but with treatment lived 20 good months. I miss you everyday Penny.
Category: Sadness
Dec 30
RIP Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds
Sadly Princess Leia and her mom died on December 27th and 28th. This year needs to go away fast. If it weren’t for the Cubs, it would have all completely sucked.
Aug 20
RIP Juna
She had a fierce will to live but in the end her body just quit on her. She’ll be missed.
Jan 24
Sad Abandoned Doggie
Dan found this dog literally starving to death in the middle of a street in our neighborhood and couldn’t leave her there. She’s been at the vet since January 18th but will probably come home to our house this week sometime. She had most of her tail amputated today – (it was cut off, infected, …
Oct 06
RIP Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, one of the most revolutionary inventors of the last century is no more. As one person who’s used products created by Steve and his talented team for the last 20 years, I can say he’s truly changed my life for the better. And even though I didn’t personally know him, he shall be …
Jun 03
RIP Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Dead at 83. Kevorkian suffered a pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart. “It was peaceful. He didn’t feel a thing.”
Mar 02
RIP Eddie Kirkland
Early Sunday morning, blues legend Eddie Kirkland died as a result of injuries he sustained when his car collided with a Greyhound bus in Florida. He was eighty-seven. The above photo was taken during his last show on February 26.
Jan 07
RIP Bill Zeller
Bill Zeller was a programming student at Princeton who killed himself on Wednesday, January 5, 2011. The note he left behind is being published, in it’s entirety around the innernets, and really, I think people should read it. It speaks of his struggle with the horrors of his youth, the darkness that comes with depression …
Jan 04
Oil Spill Not Over, Tar Balls Wash Ashore @ Fort Morgan
OK, this is totally a bummer. This is our favorite beach. By: Chad Petri FORT MORGAN, Alabama – When BP crews return to the job Monday they’ll have plenty to do. There were still tarballs washing up on some beaches. This is video from the bay side of Fort Morgan beach this morning. Cleanup crews …
Jan 28
Howard Zinn Dies
Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. <A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fairrencom-20%2F8001%2F741281ee-6cb2-4bc5-a793-3771cb51a5f0&Operation=NoScript” mce_HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fairrencom-20%2F8001%2F741281ee-6cb2-4bc5-a793-3771cb51a5f0&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A>
