A friend of mine killed herself last week. I don’t know why; I hadn’t seen her in years, and she wasn’t one to share the details of her despair on Facebook. I know she was distraught the last time I saw her, unable to let go of a wrong someone she loved had done her. […]
I’ve been away for a while. Away from this site because my other priorities seemed more important, more pressing. Away from writing in general, because it’s hard and time-consuming and I didn’t feel like my writing was really accomplishing anything, in spite of what my friends told me. So I bent my energy toward my […]
He was always a hero to me. Until the moment I learned the manner of his death. Goals Status: Marathon: On Track. I ran my first race of the year, the Get Your Rear In Gear 5K, yesterday in Fort Worth. Two Square Yards of Earth: Making Progress. I’m a page or less from finishing […]
I’m a little behind on this one, not that that should surprise anyone. I needed a couple of days to figure out how I felt about Mr. Williams’s death. That just sounds weird, doesn’t it? Mr. Williams. My stuffy conventions aside, I doubt many of us ever called him that. He was Robin Williams, or […]