Marty’s blog

Called my broker to set up a life insurance policy today. I don’t want something to happen to me and have my wife get stuck alone in this huge mortgage, and/or my daughter not able to finish school.
A few recent deaths of friends my age (and even younger), and friends of friends, some with [...]

So I’m cleaning up piles of mess covered with consruction dust, and uncovered a couple of Atomic Ranch magazines borrowed from a friend of mine who recently died. Looks like those won’t be getting returned.
Tell you what, if I ever die suddenly and you’re one of the people that have one of the dozens [...]

When I scroll through the numbers programmed into my cell phone, I pass the number of my friend Doris who died this last month. I haven’t deleted it yet. I always pause at her number and want to press “call” and see if she’ll pick up, as if I just dreamed her death.
Then [...]

This week, my dear friend Doris Gardner died at her home in East Dundee, Illinois. She insisted on dying in the home that she loved. She was 50.
Those of you who met her on our many house tours know what a great sense of humor she had! Doris was an amazing woman. [...]