Kelli is mom to Braxton, age 2, and partner to Mike. She is an instructor at the University of Oregon and a public relations consultant with her own firm. Thanks to growing up in a large family, she’s learned to manage chaos and still have fun. You can read her posts here.

My Sunday morning paper should have come with a box of Kleenex. I thought I’d share this moving story with This Mommy Gig readers.

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By Randi Bjornstad

The time-honored marriage promise, “till death do us part” has no meaning for Karl Martin.

The 78-year-old widower spends much of every day at Mount Vernon Cemetery, sitting at the grave of his wife, Betty Martin, who died Jan. 15 of kidney cancer. He reads to her and talks to her, occasionally getting up to wander a while among tombstones that date back to some of Springfield’s earliest residents before returning to her side.

Read the rest here.