You know how people say there should be some separation between your work and personal life? Yeah, well. I’m not very good at that.

So here I sit at my computer at work and I’m supposed to be writing a column about work stuff – about agriculture and the stupid Congress that hasn’t passed the stupid farm bill. Or about the stupid drought. Or whatever.

And as hard as I try, I cannot make my brain head in that direction. All it wants to do is dread tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day that we will lay my friend to rest. And I worry about her husband and her boys. I wonder: Do they need dress socks? Are their boots polished? Do the boys even have a handkerchief? They are going to need one of those tomorrow.

You know, all the things that a mom should be thinking. And I’m a mom and they don’t have theirs anymore. And that’s just not right.

I know. I know. God has a plan. I get it. But crimeny, it’s hard to accept sometimes, isn’t it?

I was scrolling through the texts on my phone and there it was. Just a couple of days ago she was going to stop by my office to bring me some stuff for 4-H. And I told her not to worry about it. I’d see her soon. I’d get it then.

Only I won’t see her soon.

And so what I’m saying is this: Sometimes life sucks and today is one of those days.