by ::::kbs | Sep 4, 2011 | Mourning
Yesterday was the first day of classes, and in one class a professor sidelined into the “text” of memorial markers such as gravestones and road-side markers (yes, these are the kinds of classes I take). She expressed her dumbfounded amazement at the...
by ::::kbs | Aug 20, 2011 | Caretaking, Mourning, Reflections
Meet Choco. That’s short for “Chocolate”. A sophisticated piece of work, is our dear Choco; I made him when I was five, maybe. Really I don’t know for sure, and I certainly don’t remember doing it. Like so many other projects I fumbled...
by ::::kbs | May 1, 2011 | Caretaking, Reflections
A friend recently wrote in her journal about having to take time off to be a temporary caretaker for her partner, who had not-minor surgery on his shoulder. I sympathized with her experiences, but she was careful to point out that the few weeks she spent caretaking in...
by ::::kbs | Apr 21, 2011 | Mourning
You know it’s going to be rough when your therapist keeps describing the current month as “Hell month.” Because it is, it totally is. My father died on April 26th, at about 2a.m. in the morning (although for me, it was “late at night”)....
by ::::kbs | Mar 22, 2011 | Mourning
I don’t write about mourning issues much on this blog, which is ironic; I rebooted my life in 2010 because I was coming out of an extended, 15-year long period of malaise brought on by the deaths of my parents in the mid-1990s. I think I don’t want this...
