TFG1MIKE 365 – 2025 Day 139 – A Decade Without My Mom!

A Decade Without My Mom! (Hard To Believe!)

Hello all it is I, TFG1Mike… You Are Now reading TFG1MIKE 365! The idea here is for me to write something, anything, once a day for 365 days. From January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. In my 139th entry of 2024, it’s May 18, 2025, and I’m just gonna keep this one very short! You saw the title above, well even though my Mom Kathy has been gone 10 years, this year it’s hitting a LOT harder than it hit me last year with the Missing My Mom 2024 Edition! I have no idea why… 

This was back in 1982 I think…

I was just thinking about Mom, and these past ten years of my life. From 2015 to 2025, I think I’ve had more adventures in these ten years, than my entire life. OK probably not, but these ten years are filled with so much. The irony of it all is that the last three years I’ve been living in Northern Indiana…. not much has happened. I’ve slowed down, I’ve become more of a recluse, than even before I was when I met Karen in 2017. So if you read last year’s blog (which is linked above), you’ll know that my wife Karen died from liver and kidney failure 4 years ago this upcoming November. So in 2022 when I got the apartment here in Indy, and made the trek across country…. it was just me… no pets, no nothin’, and the town I live in is not very accessible for public transit for me. Add on top of that the health issues I’ve had … that have returned as of July 2023… Yeah I’m a hermit. if I don’t HAVE to leave the apartment I don’t. I spend my days, nights, and weekends online… doing the podcasting and writing thing, to the best of my ability. My neuropathy, and other things dealing with my brain damage have kept me from  being the true Podcast Machine that I used to be.

I just wish ma could talk back to me, when I try having talks with her…. maybe that’s why I’m missing her more this year….  Of course it’s more like I’m talking to myself than anything else. I know we all have our time, and she is at peace, and has been at peace…. But I just have this loneliness corner of my emotions, that seems to be going through some SCREAM THERAPY  at the moment. 

The photo above was either 2012 or 2013.

Every little thing this year has made me think of mom. From just something someone might say, to a song lyric, to a tv show, to a movie…. To just a line in those things… Heck even a piece of music, or a song lyric… It seems like I’m on an emotional overload. 

I still have many good memories of my Mom, and I do remember those more than any of the struggles we went through. I still can hear her voice in my head when I read The Holiday Diary! You can read that HERE! or listen to me reading it aloud HERE!

Like I said this will be short, so I’m gonna leave y’all with the ONE podcast Mom and I did together. What a blast that was. Please keep in mind that audio is twelve years old! Miss and Love You Mom Always!

Join me tomorrow May 19, 2025 as I’ll be writing about somthing!