Can You Hear Me Now

Prose, Poetry, Photography, and Pondering

Mom

December 22, 2025

We’ll Have to Muddle Through Somehow

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck Thursday will be my first Christmas without Mom. I have been facing this realization since her death earlier in the year, but the awareness has become more intense with each passing day. I can’t stop thinking about Continue reading

Death, Life

baking, cooking, family, Life, Love, memories, Mom, Nostalgia, Nut Rolls, Poetry, Polish Food, Recipe
May 12, 2025

Mom

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? Mahatma Gandhi My mother, Bernadine Mary Hazinski Prokop, passed away this past Friday at 4:40 a.m. Arizona Time. She was 98 years old. There is much that I would like to say about Mom, but it’s too early in Continue reading

Aging, Death, Life, Parenting

family, Grief, Life, Love, Mom, Poetry, Video