Family & Friends
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Eff Christmas, Lemme Grieve in Peace | Part III: Learning to Love a New Way
I am my mother’s daughter. Check out that vibrant family photo up there. You see that little girl with the braids who bears a resemblance to Umbrae from Jordan Peele’s “Us”? That’s me. Now, see the pretty lady in the middle with the fluffy bangs in the grown-up version of…
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Eff Christmas, Lemme Grieve in Peace | Part I: Losing Loved Ones
A few years ago, you could have asked me when the last time was that I cried, and I’d struggle to remember. Right now, I struggle to recall a day that I don’t.
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I don’t want another friend to die needlessly
The only sense I can make of death is in continuing to live.
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Is it unconditional love, “settling”, or submitting to reality?
Someone once told me that while detachment can be a very useful survival tool in certain situations, it should not be a way of life. Yet I’m finding that there are some circumstances and people with whom I have had to adopt a lifetime strategy of detachment. Well maybe I’m…