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Category Archives: Grief and Mourning
One Year Later
I am writing this post two days early. On June 8th, two days from now, I will remember. What that will look like or how I will react, I don’t know. What I do know is that I have the … Continue reading
Wherein the Author Confronts Depression
11:59 December 31, 2006. I am pleasantly pickled, among friends, counting down the end of the year. There are hugs and kisses. So much laughter. I am as drunk on laughter as I am on champagne. Three days later, I … Continue reading
Words Fail Me – How to write when you can’t
From 2010 to February 2015, I wrote as if possessed. Every spare moment was writing. When I wasn’t writing, I was thinking about writing. Even reading became difficult because inevitably I would stumble across a sentence, theme, or plot twist … Continue reading
Hang Onto Me
Take a good look at the woman in the picture above. She looks happy, doesn’t she? I mean, who wouldn’t be happy in their own private pool, in the sun, with the person they love most in the world, in … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Grief and Mourning, Health and wellness, Travel
Tagged financial difficulties, living with anxiety, Stress
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Worse Than Death
Anniversary season has begun. “This time last year…” But that is not why I’m writing this. Well, it is and it is not why I am writing this. Two important movements are happening in North America right now, both of … Continue reading
Sins of the Grandfather
My Grandmother, on my mother’s side, lived with me for all of my childhood and to this day I do not know my grandfather’s name. While organizing some of the boxes I kept from my Dad’s place, I came across … Continue reading
Panic in the Control Room
February 2, 2016 Today I’m writing from the base of Mount Shasta, in California, in the world’s most comfortable chair, looking out over a trout pond ringed by patches of snow and sturdy pines. This is the second-to-last stop on … Continue reading
Bounce Bounce Bounce
At a tennis lesson two weeks ago, the coach gave us a little talk about the importance of positive self talk while on the court. Even the best in the world are not immune to those moments when flubbing an … Continue reading
Posted in Grief and Mourning, Health and wellness, Sports
Tagged bouncing back from tragedy, sports psychology, tennis
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Yes, I Have a Problem
At 3am in Las Vegas, vomiting Asian Lettuce Wraps and Don Julio tequila into a hotel bathrobe, four words came through my drunken fog loud and clear: I need to stop. Four little words that I recognized, even in the … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Grief and Mourning, Health and wellness, Travel, USA
Tagged alcoholism, drinking too much, epiphanies, facing problems, grief and drinking
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Me and the Great Big Ocean
Another New Year’s Eve approaches. Another, likely futile, attempt on my part to stay up until midnight. This year Prez and I are in the same place, with the same people, as the year before. Nothing has changed and everything … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Friends, Grief and Mourning, Life, Ocean, Travel
Tagged Bahamas, Key Largo, New Year's resolutions, New Years 2016, surviving a bad year
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