Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion
Google has P A G E S of hits when you search for grief and exhaustion. I know this because every couple of months I...
Haldeman/Conyers burial/memorial celebration
When it came time, I knew I wanted to bury Tim's ashes at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery. I didn't know when - there were a...
The one about a triple-header funeral
How do you inter your loved ones when you don't have a family cemetery, strong ties to a particular religion, you don't have children who...
Why am I writing all this stuff about Tim, anyway?
If y'all haven't already been asking yourselves why it is exactly that I'm rehashing all of this, why I'm rewriting it, tomorrow's post will really...
Louder, for the people in the back
Up and down this road I goSkippin' and dodgin'From a 44 Facebook is often an echo chamber; because you can curate the list of who...
When loss sneaks in and makes a home in your heart
I want to make sweeping statements like, "the first time you lose someone you love, it teaches you how to lose everyone else" or "the...
Well, *that* wrecked my head
Warning: this is a sad story about a sad animal and spoilers, it didn't live. If that sort of thing shatters your heart into a...
A Long December
Today would have been my dad's 77th birthday. He died two weeks after his 60th. It used to be, growing up, Bill's birthday, then a...
You just call out my name
Do you have siblings? I don't. I'm an only child (not for lack of my parents trying, mom, I'm sorry about your loss). I don't...
The Practicality of Preparing
The last few months, I've been helping my aunt and uncle decide what to do with their manuscripts, correspondence, papers, and library. They're not planning...
Some of it’s magic, and some of it’s tragic
He went to Paris Looking for answers To questions that bothered him so The nurses on this floor aren't as attentive as on the previous...
On apologizing and making amends
"Oh, laws," you're thinking. "She doesn't write forever and then she gives us one with song lyrics... it's always a hard thoughtful one when there...
When you want to punch a holiday in the throat
Dear Goddamn Diary; I don't know why this year in particular - what makes this year any different than the last sixteen - but I'm...
