I sat with a saint of our church yesterday. She is in hospice with an incredibly sudden and aggressive cancer. We were just talking and catching up. She was weak but in great spirits. It’s always surreal yet an honor to sit with people in these times. I...
We have spent a lot of time around the Mitlo household cleaning, fixing, painting, renovating, since we’ve been told to stay at home. We even made our way up to the attic. We brought down ALL of the cardboard boxes and transferred what we wanted to keep (why we...
It’s been 5 years (and one week) since Trey passed away. What do you do with that? Well, I’m making a list. Overall, we’re good. All things considered…very good.Joe and Bella used to say that they have lived two lives, one with Trey and one...
I wrote an article about Trey’s love for Kennywood 4 years ago. That article is here. It was viewed 22 thousand times on Facebook and countless times overall. Simply put, it was my heart for my son and appreciation for a place like Kennywood written down for all...
There were two men staring at each other. The one had spoken poorly of the other man’s business. The other returned the insult by commenting on his wife. That resulted in a slander against the other man’s entire family. All of this culminated with the one...
I was graduating from high school. It was the spring of 1989. I passed my yearbook from friend to friend (and people I kind of knew that handed me theirs). I never wrote trite things like “ttyl” or “kit” but I always tried to say something...
