end of life – Can We? Will We?

Do I Miss My Mom?

Let me start by saying that I know…that as I’m posting this now (it’s something I wrote awhile ago).…it’s not really about my mom and me. It’s about life. The unexpectedness of life…The roll of life. The questions of life. So… Do I miss my mom? Somehow I got to a place with my momContinue reading “Do I Miss My Mom?”

Closure

There are some things that need to close. Doors on a cold day. Windows on a rainy day. A relationship turned volatile. A box of cereal. A refrigerator door. A can of paint. A toothpaste tube. A bottle of wine. A car door. And there are things that might be closed. A career. A conversation.Continue reading “Closure”

mother

Mother is a complicated word. It’s a noun and a verb. It’s a proper noun when it replaces a name and therefore it’s capitalized. It’s a verb when someone is taking on the role of nurturing another. And we all know that if you add an “s” at the beginning of mother…it takes on aContinue reading “mother”