My mother’s birthday
My mother would've been 71 years old today. I've apparently been confused in past birthday entries about what year she...
Archive for Death
Assorted notes, loosely connected to Sara
A few notes more or less pertaining to Sara: On Thursday, driving home from the memorial service for Sara, I...
Bad news
I'm very sorry to say that my closest colleague at work, Sara G, has died. I'm not mentioning her full...
RIP, Lucius Shepard
I just learned that Lucius Shepard died two days ago. I haven't had much contact with him in a long...
Nine years
My father was killed nine years ago today. This year I've been pretty much okay. I noticed the impending anniversary...
R.I.P., Pete Seeger
I've been trying to figure out why Pete Seeger's death yesterday, at age 94, is hitting me so hard. Part...
Mood swingy
(For anyone missing the context: Today is the 33rd anniversary of my mother's death, and it would've been my father's...
What I’ve been up to (and why I’ve been glum)
Have spent most of the past week doing webmastery kinds of things for last night's launch of Jaggery, Mary Anne's...
Improving
Friday night, I belatedly remembered that I have strategies and techniques for improving my mood. So I rewatched a Gilmore...
Eight years
It's now been eight years since my father was killed. I still miss him. As I noted the other day,...
Some notes on coping with grief
Several friends of mine have lost people close to them in the past few months. It occurred to me recently...
Some links about Aaron Swartz
I didn't know Aaron Swartz, the brilliant Internet activist who committed suicide yesterday at age 26, but friends of mine...