It’s getting warm here in Texas. Sandy and I did our grocery shopping today, went to Kroger and shopped the sales and then to Walmart for staples like milk, cheese and lunch meat.

We came home and decided to jump on the bikes and head over to the mall to get steps, people watch and grab a bite for lunch. We walked the mall and found ourselves in the food court having Chic-fil-A. I was checking out Facebook and we were stunned to see we lost a classmate. Wendy (Dittman) Lipinski died of a brain tumor at 51. While I didn’t know her, I’d been in classes with her and my memory of her is that she was very quite. A nice person who I didn’t really know, and reading her obituary made me sad that I didn’t know her better.

While Sandy and I were reading the comments, it was revealed another friend from high school in our class had also passed. Kelly (Farley) Games just passed yesterday, it’s still too early for that obituary. That one struck closer to home as Kelly and I had actually talked (messaged) recently enough and I knew her. She celebrated her only sons 20th birthday just last week at Red Lobster. She’d been married to Mike for just over 3 years. She’d recently been diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time and just started chemo 4 days ago after a battle with her insurance to get started on it. She had said the side effects didn’t kick in until day 3 and she was in a lot of pain.

Sandy and I came home kind of stunned and then held each other while we both cried. There was a horrible realization that life is finite and that it ends without much warning.