About this Site

Thinking up the idea for a memorial website was easy enough. With friends and relatives all over the world, what better way to capture what people think than to have it easily accessible via the Internet.   Brainstorming how it should look came quickly.  Putting it all together has been quite a different story.  Choosing, scanning,  and processing the images has turned out to be the hardest part.

I wondered how to tell the life story of someone that would appeal to old friends, co-workers, relatives, friends, my immediate family, and myself.  I decided to look at my mom's life from multiple viewpoints and slices of different time periods. Extra work, but well worth it.   The many pictures on the site may take an extra moment to load. I strived to preserve as much quality in the images as possible.

I struggled with how to write most of the text, from a 3rd person or 1st person perspective. I decided to write most of the comments in the first person as I thought this would be the most personal way of telling the story. My father and sister provided limited input into the website.    

There is alot of depth to this site.  I looked at numerous memorial web sites before I embarked on this process.   I felt they were lacking in depth and style.  If I was going to do this, I was going to do it right. Fortunately, I have some experience designing web sites. I knew the technical part of it wouldn't be a very big hurdle.

Of note, I've included web links to books at various points on the web site. Being an avid reader, I feel books are a great way to get a broader perspective of life in the past that pictures cannot possibly reveal by themselves.

This has been a journey into the past. Learning about a side of my mother I didn't know as well as I should have when she was alive.  In our present day modernized culture of looking forward,  inventing the future, and maintaining the present -- we often fail to savor,  learn, and more importantly feel  the past, let alone learn from it.

I hope this web site can help serve that purpose. With that said, this has also been a very healing process. Knowing that my mom lived a good life - just as she said.  In the words of my mother --

Que Sera Sera,

Wayne