Still?
Today the weather was so much like it was 16 years ago today: clear and crisp and full of promise. That feel…
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Staying Inspired
It’s my brother’s birthday again, the day each year when I marvel at what age he would be if he hadn’t died…
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Keeping Count
Every year on this day, I celebrate the fact my big brother was born. And I mourn the fact that he isn’t…
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The Trouble with Memories
You know it’s been a long time when you think it is the 15th anniversary of a death and then realize, counting…
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When the dead walk among us
It’s just past Halloween, and we’ve finished All Souls Day on the Christian calendar, a time to commemorate our departed ones. Now…
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Wild and precious
It’s the eve of my forty-eighth birthday. This is the last day I’ll be the same age my big brother David was…
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Imagining my brother at 60
Today marks my big brother David’s 60th birthday. I doubt he ever imagined himself at 60, so youthful was his entire sense…
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Out-aging my big brother
This week marks 12 years since my big brother David died. David was born 12 years before me. I’m now the same…
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On the Edge of 47
[Not quite the same ring as Stevie Nicks’s “On the Edge of 17”…?] I’m in a brief liminal state between 46 and…
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My brother the doctor, extra missed today
Today is my big brother David’s birthday. He would have turned 59, and would probably have been freaking out about being on…
