Today would have been my Grandmother's 88th birthday. Last year I went up to Dallas and we grilled outside and I had some wine by the lake. She was a couple months from passing on. I'm glad I went up there for that. I had no clue her condition would worsen at that rate. It was astonishing the difference between late September and November.

I hope when my time comes I will have a family surrounding me like she had in those last moments. It wasn't a cold hospital. It wasn't alone. It was the way it should be. Send her off with dignity and love.