4/7/2021 – Wednesday

4/7/2021 – Wednesday

I’m sorry to inflict this photo on you but I thought it was hilarious — a lone duck standing on the wall, with the lights across the way on it, looking for all the world like a scene in a movie where someone is silhouetted by police spotlights. Is it an evil...

A Breath, Then a Pause

A Breath, Then a Pause  Oddly, the comforting constant of my life has become the air conditioner switching on and off. It is always there in the background, and I can always hear it because generally, I’m always alone. This is not something that bothers me. Being...

The Future of Grieving Futures

Back in 2010 or so, I wrote a book I call Grieving Futures detailing the slow collapse of my family and my emergence from that as an adult orphan. It’s a painful book and in retrospect I’d write it very differently, if I were writing it today. But it is...

Leave no one Destroyed

I am a loner by nature, introverted and reclusive to the core. I always have been, from the time I was a young girl, and while everyone swings back and forth along the extrovert/introvert spectrum during the course of their lives, my swings have run from “mildly...

{149} Skirting the abyss

This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016I was talking to a friend yesterday who is dealing with being the caretaker for a mother who’s been diagnosed with a serious disorder. Her mother’s life is on a timeline and, in the way...

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