and I have one vote from Connie Neil left in my “Y” tag. And I cannot bring myself to delete it. She voted Y to the gaming thread on April 21 2008.

I get it. I come across comments in my FB history posts from Connie, DXM and Ginger. Always a bittersweet moment. But not unwelcome.

I’ve come to love those moments

I was reminded of ita this weekend - there was an article about a woman who'd wanted her hair cut really short and most women's salons couldn't manage it. She tried barbers but some of them wouldn't cut it short enough and at all barber shops she had to endure comments from the barbers and other customers. So she started her own business - which is doing well - called Lady Clippers. All women, both customers and hair cutters.

In DC! [link]

I have one vote from Connie Neil left in my “Y” tag. And I cannot bring myself to delete it.

Amyth's still in my contacts. Someday I'll have a catastrophic phone sync/database failure and that info will be gone. But not until then.

Ginger, ita, Amyth, all are forever in my contacts.

Today is the anniversary of Amyth's birth. This was a very hard loss for our community, but today I would like to remember the grace and joy she brought to our lives.

I miss her so much. She was truly such a joy to be around.

I have never been able to bear removing ita from my address book. I'll never see her again, but she's still there.

Same, Betsy. She's in my phone contacts, and always will be. Amyth, too.

It's always going to hurt to think about the people we've lost from this community, and how much each of them brought to it.