Death Makes Us Selfish
Most humans are no strangers to pain, and the older we get the more loved ones we have lost or nearly lost to accident, illness, self-inflicted injuries, and even (if we are very lucky) old age. Death...
View ArticleSuicide
Last night I was talking to a friend of mine who is going through a really tough time, and she mentioned something that I related to entirely: the active and conscious effort she is having to put in to...
View ArticleA New Year
I had high hopes for 2012. 2011 was such an unbearable year, I thought that it could only get better. Briefly, it did. And then it all went to hell, for me and mine. The death toll of 2012 rivaled the...
View ArticleIn Memoriam
A year ago, I was in the middle of a fantastic evening. I’d gone to see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with C and some of my favorite people. C & I had parted for the evening, she to Muni and I to...
View ArticleSparkly Devil
I’ve been staring at the title of this post for about 20 minutes, now, and it’s not working. It’s not writing this post for me. It’s not finding any words. It’s not bringing my much-loved, talented,...
View ArticleA Checkered Year
I suppose it’s time for my increasingly traditional annual retrospective. If 2013 were a cartoon animal, it would be the Cat in the Hat, balancing too much shit and ultimately failing. Oh, don’t get...
View ArticleDeath and Social Media
Not too long ago, my Facebook feed was suddenly peppered with vague posts about the death of somebody who was part of a broader (but quite small) community of which I am a member. People refused to...
View ArticleOn Facing the Mortality of Our Wee Beasties
This is Thumper: He has been my best buddy for fifteen years. In the last few days of those fifteen years, I have watched Thumper go from older, but still moderately spry, to weak and wobbly. Or...
View ArticleGoodbye
About a decade and a half ago, a kitten told me I belonged to him, and I believed him. I was visiting my mother, brother, and sister in Guerneville. This was some number of weeks after they had found...
View ArticleMonster
Last month I lost my best furry friend, Thumper. He was pretty much everything to me, so his passing was heartbreakingly difficult. When the vet took him from my arms one last time, she begged me to...
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