Ten Years Gone

Though it’s not the day that I want to most remember her by, I can’t let today go by without noting that it’s been ten years since Michelle passed. If you didn’t know her, or maybe even if you did, you can read her obituary or the eulogy that I gave at her funeral. Instead, I choose to remember her by her adventures, by her unbridled enthusiasm for life and fun activities, by her generosity of her time to friends and strangers alike, and by her instigation of all of those things in others. Michelle was the ultimate instigator. I think about Michelle every day, and while I miss her very much, the thing that still hits me the hardest is the fact that the world is missing out on having her in it. Her first big run, the Sauvie Island half marathon; cuddling sled dog pups in Skagway, Alaska; visiting Slappy Cakes; enjoying a beer in the sun Although it caused some difficulty at first, I consider it a testamant to Michelle that I was able to move on and continue a normal life relatively…