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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Dog Person
“It’s hard to imagine Anne without Trixie,” my friend Karen said on Friday when I had to say goodbye to my beloved…
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Subject to Change
“The only thing that is constant is change,” wrote the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. This is true, yet often hard to accept….
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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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A surprise starfish from a stranger
While watching TV, my phone beside me buzzed. A quick glance showed an unknown number from Washington State, so I tapped the…
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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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The best goodbye is still a hard goodbye
How appropriate that the cat would die on New Year’s Day after a year like we had, disabusing me of the notion…
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Screaming inside my heart, lungs
In my last post, I reflected on how my deceased brother continues to inspire me to get outside and to exercise —…
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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…
