Tag: brother

• Unexpected Memories

  Seventeen years ago today, my older brother Denny, passed away.  It was not a sudden unexpected death but a slow decline with cancer.  His family misses him terribly.  My brother, Dan and I miss him.  I think about him a great deal. We were a family of four boys.  Denny was the second oldest, born…

  patrickjegan

  June 21, 2015

  brothers, Creativity, Family, Ghosts, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, North Country Life, Real Personal History

  1950’s, Adirondacks, balsam scent, baseball, brother, death, family, memory, Mets

• The Odyssey Westward: Travels Part 1

  Go my sons, put away your books.  Buy yourself stout shoes.  Walk the hills, the mountains, the valleys and the deserts.  In this way, and no other, can you learn of the world and its ways. –Paraphrased from a quote on a 3 x 5 index card clipped to the dashboard of a ’60s VW…

  patrickjegan

  September 21, 2013

  Travels

  Alaska, brother, Camping, Daughter, Great Plains, Juneau Icefield, memories, on the road, Rockies, RV traveling, Seattle, son, Tacoma, travel journal