Day to Mourn

Today, I mourn the grave – and perhaps, terminal – illness of democracy, for today, following on yesterday’s shameful event (the State of the Union address), the Senate votes to acquit Donald J. Trump of the charges which were the basis of his House of Representatives impeachment. Today, as a nation, we begin our walk […]

Blame

Today is the three-year anniversary of my having taken my son to the emergency room because of sporadically-strange behavior.  Within hours, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, assumed to be malignant; he was admitted for further tests which confirmed a glioma blastoma.  Thirty-one days later, he was dead. I blame myself: why hadn’t I […]

On Grief

I have come to understand a good deal about grief and loss, surely more than I ever wanted to.

Luke’s Brain Cancer

“…it’s like the fingers of an evil hand….”