Showing posts with label loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loss. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2018

Soul Flier

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How could you have grown up so fast, when the day you were born, you, grown up, seemed a million years away?  Syd and me when she was about ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

When Robin Flew Away: The Death of Robin Williams

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Updated on February 16, 2024 On my personal scale of the sad and unthinkable, Robin Williams' death by suicide is  off  the scale. In fa...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Bridge Years

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The day that would have been my mother's 93rd birthday passed in January. The second anniversary of her death fell in February. She is s...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Swimming Toward the Christmas Lights

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I'm writing this on Christmas Eve at the end of one of the most challenging years I can remember.  My mother passed away in February, a...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Honey, People Like You Should Never Go to Those Places By Themselves

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Recently I lost my mother. In its grief, my brain scrambles to recall details of her more recent self while things that happened years ago s...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Heart Murmur

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When my mother was 91, sick, weak, and giving up her life, I wanted to tell the healthcare workers the things I knew that they did not.   ...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Defending Facebook: My "Charmed" Life

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If Facebook gets you down, makes you feel your relationships, your family, your furniture, your holidays don't quite measure up, or if y...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Kay-Baby

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I have an older sister named Kay. We don't speak, we never exchange gifts, and we've never borrowed each other's clothes. There ...