Grief Unassuaged

My aunt died recently. She was my mother’s sister. My mother hasn’t spoken to me for 15 years, nor have…

Someone on a Vespa

My husband and I are downsizing. In addition to getting rid of furniture, clothing, comic book collections, and abandoning many…

Last night I went to a local brewery to hear some music from a talented cover band who covered Pink…

I turned 60 today. My husband Jonathan threw me a lovely birthday party over the weekend. The event was wonderful…

The culture of my birth family is that of estrangement. Growing up, my aunts, my mother’s much older sisters, didn’t…

My mother ran away from home when I was 15. The Friday before Mother’s Day. I got home from school…

In 2016, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of The United States hard. Really hard. My daughter had just gotten…

Well, I never really posted more of my writings about beginnings during the first week of the new year as…

At the start of a new year, we habitually look forward towards the twelve months ahead of us. Much less…

Memoire writing is one way to purge your psyche from all the memories one’s acquired over a lifetime, be it…