Our Mother Who Art in Heaven
Dear Mother, You must be pleased that I married someone emotionally and morally similar to you and to my sister? And equally contented that YOUR family shows unyielding loyalty to…
Pills That are Hard to Swallow
Trying to surrender my current prayer of “Make it fucken stop” for “PLEASE ?? Help me become willing to accept the things I cannot change and to just love the hell out…
Fifty Years Without Repair
I have never—not ever, not once in 50 years—had a moment of resolution with my mother or sister in which each person owned their contributions to the situation. All initiatives…
Rest In Peace
Yesterday, overly tired from waking at 4am, unable to return to sleep. I ruined myself from 4-8am, with recycled, if not hysterical thoughts of my older son and the cloud hung…