Tag: loneliness

Dementia steals your memory and your life, the progression slowly peeling away who you were. It is not, however, contagious. Nothing is contagious via the telephone. Uncomfortable making that phone call? Try shuffling through life in her slippers for a while.

Everyone needs something to live for. My mother lives for the day she will die. The innate right to choose your own time and method of death is a part of who we were as a family, one of the few things all three of us agreed on.

Originally published as “Lele” in Hos, Hookers, Callgirls and Rentboys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love,…

When I was a girl we lived across from a parking lot. On the other…

It was a lovely wedding in a neighborhood church that welcomes all possibilities of love….

I’m a shelter dog at heart. It’s not even well hidden. If you’ve never been…

It’s so easy to see crazy when someone else is wearing it. I watched a…

What? How was I supposed to know? One minute I’m playing with a perfectly fine…

Service will change your life. Maybe not, but it changes mine. Every time. This week…

It would help if I knew where I was going. I don’t. I only know…

I’m chasing my dreams full speed until I run smack into a solid wall. I…

Therapy Guy is back from vacation. Now I have a safe place to cry instead…

I don’t know about little boys, hell, it becomes more and more apparent each day…