Comments on: Two years https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Martha Hughes https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-71460 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:41:56 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-71460 I’m reading your book and I’m at the part where you write about your father’s illness. It’s very moving and I have to be careful where I read it – the tears start rolling down my cheek. This is a very loving tribute to your father. Beautifully written.

]]> By: Rebekah https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-64293 Mon, 08 May 2017 16:22:10 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-64293 I went looking for your rhubarb recipes this morning, and this thumbnail was one of the search results. With the title “Two Years” and a cute little girl in the photo, I clicked, thinking, “oh, Molly must have written something sweet for June Bug’s second birthday. That will brighten my morning.”

But of course, it’s not June in the photo. It’s you.
Molly, thank you for letting me, a complete stranger, share in your life. My heart is warm and full and my belly is often the same because of your writing.

]]> By: Lauren https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-833 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:49:02 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-833 Molly – I read the chapters on your Dad's illness and death today on the train into work this morning. Your words there – and here, in this old post – were so deeply moving and hit a nerve for me in so many ways. I would imagine that anyone who's ever lost someone to cancer can relate, in a way, to what you've gone through with your Dad. Thanks for sharing such a deeply moving and personal story. And for the record, your Dad sounds like a hoot – I would have loved to have known him!

]]> By: Lauren https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-834 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:49:02 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-834 Molly – I read the chapters on your Dad's illness and death today on the train into work this morning. Your words there – and here, in this old post – were so deeply moving and hit a nerve for me in so many ways. I would imagine that anyone who's ever lost someone to cancer can relate, in a way, to what you've gone through with your Dad. Thanks for sharing such a deeply moving and personal story. And for the record, your Dad sounds like a hoot – I would have loved to have known him!

]]> By: tom https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-832 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:47:49 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-832 Dear molly, from far away i come. just decided to read your blog from the start, as if it was a book, and not long after i'm already inspired.
The post, for I read many food blogs, is one of the best recipe for warmth I encountered with.

thank you M.

]]> By: gwen https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-831 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:37:35 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-831 And now I've joined the society of weepers.

My dad died long before I had the chance to know him and I went abroad this semester to the University he attended and lectured at in Sydney.

It makes me happy that such an excellent person such as yourself (I'd like to believe that no one could write as well as you do and not be an excellent person) had such a dad to know and love, plus we can't be wasting all of those excellent parents in the world on obnoxious brats now can we. I'm in favor of a ballot measure for the reappropriation of excellent parents. – sorry 2 AM logic-

]]> By: Anonymous https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-830 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:34:23 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-830 I had many big losses so far. I am sure I will have more. I still do not understand why good people leave us so early (and I am over my forties). That's why I believe like you that they are always around, even when they are not physically anymore. That's the only comfort I have found since my losses started. Thanks for sharing your history.

]]> By: Anonymous https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-829 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:56 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-829 Hi Molly,

I just discovered your blog about three days ago, working backwards through while I eat my meals! I just read this post and definitely cried the whole way through. My father and I were never close, but my father-in-law was amazing. He was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma a year after he retired and died a year later. Throughout his illness he couldn't eat many of his favorite things, but near the end, the doctor told him he could have his favorite, vanilla ice cream from Fenton's in Oakland. I remember helping him eat this favorite treat and him looking so very happy. Thank you for sharing this, it brought this memory back tonight.

TT

]]> By: Anonymous https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-828 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:43:32 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-828 I just shed a tear for your father…and for mine…
M.

]]> By: Nurit https://orangette.net/2004/12/two-years/#comment-827 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:41:12 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/07/two-years#comment-827 Hi Molly,

I am thinking about you and your dad and family, and how you describe in your book your family being together at home during his last weeks, taking care of him and of each other.
My dad is so sick. I don’t know if he’ll make it. But our story is so different. This is why I came to look again at your dad posts.
I want to write about it, to let it all out, but it’s scary.
My father left me when I was about 3 years old and moved to another continent and moved on with his life. Like a friend recently told me – I have already lost him a long time ago and practically all my life.
Our family is so separated too. I feels so lonely.
It makes me happy though to hear storied of families like yours, where people help each other, love each other.

(By the way, you signed my copy of your book “To Molly” – how funny is that?)

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