{122} Identity and grief

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...

{98} Memories and sads

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...

The lower-class side of grief

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...

Waiting for Disaster

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...

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