Author: AMF-Admin

Chapter 60: Emotional Overload November 22, 2025 Today was a little too much for me, what with the day being bookended by two situations of such pain and sadness. This morning got off to a rather frightening start when I thought I lost mom’s obituary.  It all started when I got a recommendation last week…

Chapter 59: Aging With Dignity January 20, 2025 I went to mom and dad’s place for a visit this afternoon, before the kids arrived home from school.  Dad hasn’t fully recovered from being sick at Christmas time – we have confirmed he has a full-blown lung infection.  Unfortunately, mom is now sick as well, but…

Chapter 58: Digital Footprint Deletion November 16, 2025 I went over to dad’s house today to finally go through all of mom’s computer records and start deleting them.  I’ve known I’ve needed to do this for awhile but somehow erasing all electronic traces of mom feels so…I don’t know: cruel? final? irreversible?  I suppose if…

Chapter 57: New Year, Old Hopes January 2, 2025 For many years now, we’ve had a family tradition of my parents coming over to our place for dinner on New Year’s Day.  With all of the things that seem to be changing, I’m glad this is one part of routine that seems to still be…

Chapter 56: When Knowledge Becomes Comfort November 14, 2025 I still remember how surreal it felt to go back to the hospital with dad a few hours everything had happened and request an autopsy to determine the exact cause of mom’s death.  At that time, I was given a phone number for the hospital’s Social…

Chapter 55: Disorientation Double-Take December 24, 2024 Unfortunately, dad is sick.  He recently travelled to Portugal (during which time mom stayed with us) and seemed to pick up a particularly nasty bug on the flight home.  He hasn’t been feeling well for a few weeks now – fortunately, he seems to be doing a good…

Chapter 54: Ok, Where’s My Book? November 12, 2025 Well, this is a weird feeling.  I think I am finally ready to grieve.  So, where’s my book?  I’m not entirely sure how to do this… Oh wait, I do have a book – in fact, four of them.  I had coffee with one of my…

Chapter 53: ‘Tis the Season…? December 15, 2024 Earlier today, our “Goan Orphans” group celebrated an early Christmas lunch.  Many people in our usual crew are travelling elsewhere for Christmas Day and we didn’t want to miss the opportunity to meet up, so we decided to start the party one week early. Growing up, I…

Chapter 52: Celebrations All Round November 26, 2024 Today is my birthday and the one-week anniversary of my very public announcement (well, to my LinkedIn community, anyway) that I have left my previous role and am about to embark on a new career journey.  Maybe it’s the delirium of the birthday (as I’ve noted before,…

Chapter 51: Sharing Our Story October 9, 2025 Today is the day I hit “publish” on this website and announced the official launch of The Soggy Sandwich on my LinkedIn account. This idea for this website came to me not even six months ago – when mom was totally healthy and you know, still alive. …