Category: cancer
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Half Bad
Deconstruction continued…. My head has become a catch-all of details and images from the past two years. Rising to the surface is acomment made by a dear, departed friend and teacher about a glass of wine: “You know how people are always saying that something isn’t half bad? Well this…
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Blur
Deconstruction continued…. There’s that Vaseline haze that covers memories when so many of them get lumped into a span of time that it’s hard to distinguish them. What remains are the notable events—those that jut out way above the blur…. In March, the plumber finally showed up, and lay in…
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Big ugly scary bug
Deconstruction continued…. Something like this was hanging around our front porch yesterday. Every year toward summer’s end, a large nasty-looking creature appears in that location. Last year it was a giant bright green grasshopper, clinging to the front storm door, daring me to open it. I didn’t. I stayed inside,…
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Care
I will try to be brief, as my time is in short supply these days. I had not intended to post, and considered letting this blog lapse, but a couple of things have been sticking me, like an itch that isn’t easily reached. If you have been thrust into the…
