Tell Me a Story

 Pop's been gone almost 24 hours now. My state of shock is fading into dismal disconsolation. None of us gets outta here alive but would...

Pre-fatherhood Daddy Daddy died at 8:30 this morning. I’m stunned and savagely shattered. Silly as this is, it never occurred to me that he’...

In my ongoing efforts to distract myself from the Victorian melodrama (think Wilkie Collins ’s The Woman in White ) that my life has become,...

It’s not just my father who’s not doing well. Jen’s Pop isn’t in good shape either. She wrote up a synopsis of his ongoing ordeal In Februar...

I'm just waiting for THE text. Yes, 't he tex t.' Deaf here, remember? It may seem cold, weird and much to cazh to you but it...

No new news on Daddy. He’s hanging in. Here are a couple memories though: I was in my mid-20s. Daddy had stopped by for a quick visit with ...

Daddy at Daddy at 43. Me at 21. Today is, quite possibly, my father’s last on this big spinning orb. The nurses told my sister Celeste yeste...

I can’t subscribe to every interesting mag or newspaper that has an article I want to read. Dammit. Most give three free reads before cuttin...