Thanks all for your condolences. This is very comforting, coming from my BF friends.

It has been a hard and hectic time. The car has been a help in one sense. The bus from Lansing to Traverse City takes only about an hour longer than driving, but it arrives in TC late in the evening, and departs in the morning. So it's like taking two days off the trip. That's no good when you have to make several short trips, as I did during my dad's illness and after his death. I ordinarily do enjoy the bus ride, however, and I've done it at least a hundred times. But if I hadn't had the car during the last month, my son or friends would have had to drive me a couple times.

The memorial service was Sunday. Dad was a Unitarian, so the service was long on memories and short on religion, which I like. There were slides (dad was a photographer) and lots of music: Steven Foster, John Lennon, and the whole congregation joined hands and sang "You Are My Sunshine" at the end, which he often sang to my sister and me when we were little.