Archive for Death
I just learned that Bernie DeKoven, a.k.a. “Blue,” has died, of cancer. Bernie was my high school friend Elyon’s father. In high school and college, I had a hard time interacting with most of my friends’ parents, but Bernie was different. He was one of the leaders of the New Games movement. I had grown […]
I’m sad to learn that Mary Rosenblum has died. I think she was recently best-known as a mystery writer, under the name Mary Freeman, but I was most familiar with her Drylands series, about a future Pacific Northwest with very little water. I particularly liked the first story in that series, “Water Bringer.” The whole […]
Last night, in a successful effort to procrastinate on some overdue work tasks, I looked up how much a nearby house recently sold for, which indirectly led me to update the list of assets in my will. (My will, such as it is, is currently just a text file in the Documents folder of my […]
Today is the thirteenth anniversary of the day my father was killed. A lot of years, I get tense and irritable in the couple of weeks leading up to the anniversary. This year, I’ve been pretty much fine. A little sad, and a little scattered (have had a hard time focusing and a hard time […]
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, at Wilbur Middle School, the school's computer lab had a couple of...
Twelve years ago today, my father was killed. I've been off-kilter for the past couple weeks; sometimes fine, sometimes sad...
Bruce Chadwick was one of my oldest friends. Sometime yesterday, he took his own life. This is a long post...
For weeks, I've been meaning to post here, but I keep shying away, for reasons not entirely clear to me....
Tomorrow will be the eleventh anniversary of the day my father was killed. As is often the case this time...
In one of the boxes I pulled out of the garage a couple weeks ago, there were 100+ 3.5" floppy...
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “Jimmy's Roadside Cafe,” by Ramsey Shehadeh A heartbreaking story about life...
In a box the other day, I found a photo album of Nancy's, which I rescued from Peter and Nancy's...