Living in the layers

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

On the Edge

On the Edge After your mother dies, you will learn to live on the edge of life, to brace … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. Life … More

My concentration has not been all that it might have been recently. Loved ones are suffering. Some with this thing, … More

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face … More

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look up at the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the … More

Another Loss to Stop For Against such cold and mercurial mornings, watch the wind whirl one leaf across … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More