Frozen Grief

About the Book

Inside cover When a person’s life ends; there is a grieving process for family and friends. The closer your relationship is to the person the longer the grieving. The grieving of your loss doesn’t go on forever and the person is not forgotten. From time to time memories of past events will come back. Those memories for the most part are good for you. In my case I am still grieving the loss of my wife. My wife is alive but her life is a long way away from what she or I would want it to be or thought we would have. She is not able to do the many things a grandma would do for her grandchildren. She is not able to do many things for herself, plus, she can’t live in her own house with me. Life sucks sometimes. Many people have a tragedy happen in their lives. For me, in my situation, what could I do? I only had two choices. I could stay and deal with the problems and frustrations of being a husband/caregiver or I could leave. I chose to stay! What choice did I have really? My wife needed me and I needed to honor and fulfill those marriage vows I took so long ago.

About the Author

My K-12 grade school years were spent in St. James, MN. After graduating from high school I attended an Automotive Repair program in Mankato, MN. A year after graduating from the automotive repair program I took a job in Albert Lea. I worked for the local Ford/Lincoln Mercury dealer for twenty-one years. An opportunity to teach automotive repair at the local vocational school presented itself. I had done some teaching before but only Sunday school for our church. I was also involved in Boy Scouts. I was a Cub Scout master and a Webelos leader. We had three boys who became Eagle Scouts. My wife thought I would be good at teaching and she encouraged me to apply for the teaching job and I received it. I had a good job repairing Ford/Lincoln Mercury vehicles, but felt a call to teach. I enjoyed my twenty years of teaching Automotive Service Technology at Riverland Community College. I helped promote the program to become NATEF certified and the program received national recognition from the Automotive Industry Planning Council. As of now I have retired from that teaching position and enjoy spending time with my family.