Little Blister

Okay - why the name... "Little Blister"

I had an older brother Kenny, who I loved dearly although we did not always get along and actually we fought a lot when we were younger. In school he would say to this friends, "there goes my little blister" just one of his many terms of endearment for me. But as we grew older we became best friends and relied on each other for a lot. We shared a lot of happiness and a lot of sadness, we shared the same hurt and pain, which made a very strong bond between us while on the constant quest to understand the actions of an idiot (the abandonment of our father).

On May 14, 1998 my world changed forever in ways I can't even explain, my brother was on his way to work and was killed in a motorcycle accident, he was racing another bike and they both crashed and died... I like to say my brother lived his life on his terms and at his own speed - so he left this world doing what he loved.

Nothing prepares you for death, this was one of those things that "doesn't happen to me." I can't even being to try to describe the pain. It has been ten years and some days it still feels like yesterday. I don't know if you ever recover from a death - some say it is because I refused to view the body - so I only remember my brother alive and that is the way I like it.

So to my brother Kenny, I love and miss you terribly, I will always be your Little Blister...

"God took our boy today to ride shotgun on the Milky Way" (The Ratman 1998)