This post is my third family remembrance in just over three weeks. The three members of my nuclear family all died in the springtime, and each year, on the anniversaries of their passing, I honor them in some way. My dad passed away in 1995, 24 years ago. I first published this post about my dad ten years ago in my blog, "Musings from the Third Half." It takes the form of an imaginary Facebook profile of him. At that time, I had been on Facebook only one year. *** My dad, Ge

Today is the 19th anniversary of the death of my mother. In 2010, I wrote this post in remembrance of her in a blog I maintained for several years called "Musings from the Third Half." My mother always had faith in me. I know she would be so proud to learn that her youngest is not only a published novelist but also an artist, whose work is accepted into juried shows. At the tiime I wrote this, I was neither. *** Josephine Carlton Brett (June 9, 1908-April 3, 2000) was born i