by KimBoo York | Oct 16, 2016 | Life and all That
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016It’s still unnerves me whenever a friend or colleague expresses surprise when they find out my parents are dead. Medium recently had a highlighted section on “grief” and as usual...
by KimBoo York | Sep 19, 2016 | Ponderings
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016I had a migraine that ranged over the 15th and 16th, which was entirely mysterious and inexplicable…until I remembered that September 15th is my mother’s death day. And, seriously: this...
by KimBoo York | Oct 5, 2013 | Writing
I am nearly finished with a very short story about a lower-working class grieving mother. Who wants to read that? Probably no one, but it was important to me. While I admire grief and mourning workers, people who devote their lives to helping others cope with loss, I...
by KimBoo York | Apr 6, 2013 | Life and all That
This isn’t a meandering, depressing essay about inadequacy, in case you were wondering. It’s more a surprised realization of how often I tend to sit idly by and wait for disaster to strike, and why. My adopted brother David and I were at dinner discussing something...