Marcy’s birthday
Today would have been my mother's sixty-eighth birthday. (Sixty-eight? Really? She was only thirty-seven when she died; it's really hard...
Archive for Death
R.I.P., Joanna Russ
I was very sorry to hear the other day that Joanna Russ had died. I've been waiting to post until...
Home
Been off in Florida the past few days, helping Annie F after her mother's unexpected death. Been mostly offline, and...
Six years
My father was killed six years ago today. Anniversaries of deaths are often difficult for me, but I'm mostly doing...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today was the twelfth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in hundreds of cities all over the world. A couple dozen...
Missing parents
Today would have been my father's 71st birthday. It's also the 30th anniversary of my mother's death. I was mostly...
Marcy’s birthday
Today my mother would have been sixty-seven years old. I'm not sure I can really imagine her at sixty-seven. She...
R.I.P., Charles Cala
I wasn't on Facebook much last week, and so I missed various people posting about the fact that our friend...
R.I.P., Jeanne Robinson
After over a year of struggling with cancer, Jeanne Robinson has died. I didn't know her, but I liked Stardance,...
Blogging about my father
Two weeks ago, on the anniversary of my father's death, I finally decided to get moving on a project I'd...
Not the best week ever
Spent the week kind of wandering around in a daze. Recovered my usual sleep patterns after Monday, but never really...
Doing okay, mostly
Today's the fifth anniversary of my father's death. I had intended to spend some of this weekend fixing some problems...