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Get Obsessed
My bandmate Mike recently texted me a photo of the $50 check from our first brewery gig and delightedly noted it was the first…
December 31, 2025
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Do I deserve these feelings?
Six years ago today, I got home from work, and was sitting across from my then-husband telling him about my day when his cell…
August 7, 2025
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Always His Baby
When I was born, my brother David was already in junior high: a 12-year-old boy with glasses, gap teeth, and a sort-of-shag haircut, except…
March 13, 2025
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On singing in the face of despair
There is something terribly clarifying about existential moments like the one we’re living through. When all of life feels uncertain, we suddenly focus in…
November 14, 2024
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Día los Muertos para las mascotas
Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been an animal lover since birth. I grew up in a house with eight cats, a couple of…
October 28, 2024
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September 4, 2024
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Loving Animals
I was sitting at my desk at work yesterday when my phone buzzed — a text from my friend Michele’s phone. I’d sent her…
August 17, 2024
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Exit / Salida
I hate to fly, but I love to see other places, so planes are a necessary evil. Things had been rough both personally and…
June 24, 2024
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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 — nearly…
March 13, 2024
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The Empty Seat at the Holiday Table
When the holidays are approaching and festivities are being planned, for families who have lost a member — which is a lot of us…
December 23, 2023
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Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
Today is Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, which I’ve written about before because I find it so beautiful and moving,…
November 2, 2023
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Dogs and Seasons
A decade ago, when my then-husband and I were looking for a bigger house in our area, we continually perused a neighborhood about 10…
October 22, 2023
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