We don't remember people with tears in my family. We remember them with memories and laughter...#blogging #amwriting #author #indieauthor

Best wake I ever went to was for my father. His passing was unexpected, his loss devastating. He was a wonderful, brilliant, talented and funny man. So it should surprise no one that the party after his wake went on all night in my living room filled with stories and laughter and silly music he liked and very few tears. It was much later before I cried. But in the beginning it was celebration of his life and I think that is how it should always be.

This comes to mind becomes of Robin Williams. A brilliant, talented, funny man gone too early. It's hard to comprehend why someone with so many gifts would want to leave early, but behind every funny man supposedly there is a tortured soul. But I would prefer to leave Robin Williams in the collection of people I never think of as gone. There are a few in that collection because unknowingly they became a part of my wonderful, giant web of happy memories with my family.

I prefer always to celebrate life. So pop in a video, laugh with this brilliant man, and remember the joy he gave and put Robin in the collection of people we never think of as gone.