Leave the Dishes…

Leave the dishes.
For the past few weeks I’ve been emotionally unsettled, off balance and vulnerable.    I have blamed it to the post vacation funk that I used to finding myself muddling through when I return to work after time off.  I’ve also blamed it on the added stress that I’ve been encountering in my professional [...]

Yellow Roses

(A companion piece to Corina’s blog post on a Yellow Rose)
The young woman’s eyes darted across the table.  She looked lost in the familiar surroundings. There she was at a table she had sat at thousands of times before next to the the fragile looking woman.  At first glance, an outside observer would have guessed [...]

Artifacts

I take my time
Unearthing the small things that she left behind.
Hand written notes.
A pill bottle.
Me.
Artifacts of her.
Proof.
She was real.
She wrote this.
She held this.
She loved me.
Items once inconsequential are now irreplaceable.
What mysteries they hold.
Mysteries of me.
Inside of her my heart started to beat.
My arms moved for the first time.
She knew me first.
I am an [...]

Elsewhere

Today I finished reading the Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin.  It’s the story of Liz, a 15 year girl who was killed while riding her bicycle.  She wakes up Elsewhere.

Elsewhere is somewhere that people live their lives backwards.  You arrive in Elsewhere and leave once you’ve “grown down” to a baby.  Then, you are bundled up [...]

Life, Death and the Answers That I Don’t Have

In the past week I have looked into the mirror and saw in the reflection my own mortality.
I wish that I could write something to help me make sense of the senseless nature of life and death.

Coffee with Death

I’m sitting across the table from death.  Once again he and I are staring into each others eyes over cups of coffee.  Decaf for him he had a good nights sleep.
He brought up my own mortality this time and that was where the conversation ended and now we are at an impasse.  It is in [...]