Sad

This one made me really sad.

Alisa was killed by a drunk driver, she was barely an adult … not even old enough to drink herself. And she was a mom.

This stuffed bear, and the adjacent bottle of Fireball, got to me. As a dad of two kids roughly Alisa’s age I couldn’t help but feel the weight of this loss and the resulting memorial.

Some kid in Central Oregon has to go out to the side of the road on Highway 97, maybe once a year, maybe less, and pay tribute to the mom she probably never knew.  

That makes me sad.