I don’t know why this is heavily on my mind right now. It’s a traumatic part of my past I think about maybe once every several years, as it happened nearly two decades ago. So why am I thinking of it now? One thing my friend Paula taught me, prior […]
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Lately, there are a lot of thoughts rooted in confusion and helplessness bouncing around my head, cluttering my other thoughts and dominating my time awake. These can be grouped into two different categories, and I’m going to try to explain one of them. This blog exists, because my friend Paula […]
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I’m very easily overwhelmed emotionally, on both the positive and negative sides of the equation. And when this happens, I need time to step back and process my own feelings. This is what I’ve been doing the last week, as I mull over the events and sort through the tangled […]
I can think of no better way to describe the events of October 11, 2014 than “the silent goodbye”. How does one say goodbye to someone they’ve spent their entire life loving so deeply? How do you acknowledge they’re walking out of your life forever and into the permanence of […]
I don’t know what day my mom died. I know when she was legally declared dead, which would be October 27, 2014. But she was already gone before then. For weeks, I pleaded with my father to remove Mom from life support, but he refused. In his denial, he insisted […]
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Tonight, a very lengthy post I made on a Facebook last year appeared in my “Memories” feed. Rather than share it directly on the social media platform with an equally lengthy updated sentiment, I felt it would make a grand blog post. In case you think I’m a lost cause […]