Mother's Account

It's Mother's Day.
I closed her LinkedIn account.
A gift for us both.

Bob and Linda, spring/ summer 1965

Martha's Vineyard, MA

xoxo,

Emily

aka Bob's Daughter

And Now It Is Gone

I googled all the names I have for Bob on the internet.
I call him Robert Caigan, Robert A. Caigan and Robert Allen Caigan.

This morning the Cornell University listing was gone.
It only appears if
I go to their site and search for him.

The internet has a memory.
Yet, it does not always tell the same story.
I have to ask at just the right moment...
Sounds too much like a parent to be true.

xoxo,
Bob's Daughter

This is the beginning of an adventure. Somewhere between play, curiosity, possibility, outrage and a daughter's thought of 'what if?'

Last night MyLife.com popped up and asked me if I would like to reconnect with Robert Caigan. It says that I can send him an email. I don't know what their source is, but my father died in 1978. Sick, twisted, funny...the beginning of a play?

Perhaps the internet is the new immortality and my father, I thought died before he could enter it. Apparently not so. I had just stated to my husband, "I think something new is coming", a shift.

Now I am going to send an email to my father...