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  • What’s in your Glass?

    I think the phrase “Glass half empty” or “half full” is outdated. I think that no…

  • The Affected

    The hardest lesson I learned of grief was not how to grieve, rather, how to accept…

  • When Death Feels Generous

    I always imagined an embargo with Death. As people prepare to take off with him in…

  • To Die Smiling

    I spend so much time thinking about my mother’s passing; how it could have gone differently,…

  • Classroom Army of One

    “Pity and compassion are the same things.” The class was silent and accepting of whatever this…

  • An Hour with my Grandpa

    “No, no. That was bullshit. See? I wrote there, bullshit.” And there it was, in all its…

  • Greater than Death

    When I was young like, younger than ten, I would lay awake at night and watch…

  • December Holiday Low

    Wednesday was a bad day. Not the kind of bad day where you get a flat,…

  • Me, the dog, and the day lily

    A couple of days ago, in New York, the high temperature teetered around 25 degrees and…

  • Little Slices

    I recently read an article saying that Quantum Theory (I don’t even know if it should…