Goodbye to all that
If it’s true that everywhere you go there you are, it’s also true (for me anyway) that everywhere I’ve been, here I am
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Sixty
Today I turn 60 and it’s fine, I mean, I feel fine but emotionally it sucks and I’ve been thinking about that, why that is. I am active and strong […]
49 Tomorrows
The other day I clicked on a “calculate your life expectancy quiz”. After entering the data I clicked for the result. A kind of superstitious awe filled me. 60 This […]
Hi Daddy
It’s me, Sandy. I like to write letters and one day I realized I never write letters to my own family, so sat down to write you this letter, and […]
My father’s house
Recently I had cause to spend a couple of nights in an old abandoned farmhouse, moving out decades worth of stored furniture. I was both relieved and disappointed that there […]
This unfinished turn around the sun
In California the winters are green and the summers are brown, the opposite of where we come from. It took some getting used to, like you being gone has taken […]
A tale of two tweets
Scrolling through Twitter yesterday, two tweets stayed with me. One shows goth rocker Alice Cooper serving meals at a homeless shelter, but it wasn’t his rock and rollishness that stood […]
Coming up close
…and he just got into his car and drove away
A letter to the universe
We talk about reaching solid ground and solid ground does not exist. The ground is faulted; necessarily so. Balance is an illusion.
Goodbye, my dear
Clint Miller, who was once my husband for 19 years, and my friend even longer, has died.
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