Fade to white
I remember you before all this. Before those awful shades reached up and pulled you back down. Nobody who knows would blame you, and none of us are thinking about who might be responsible. Not...
View ArticleSomewhere warm
Fade to white is the first entry in this series.My current partner is very insistent on this: “Don’t play anything like Amazing Grace or How Great Thou Art or I will zombie-burst from the coffin and...
View ArticleDay to day
Fade to white and Somewhere warm are the two previous diaries in this series.Log into student portal. Pay outrageous bill. Feed cat after headbutt reminds you today is a weekday and work happens. This...
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The Grieving Room: Haunted
Welcome, fellow travelers on the grief journey, and a special welcome to anyone who is new to The Grieving Room. We meet every Monday evening. Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, whether...
View ArticleQuick notes on Argentina and the Dirty War
Over the next few days there is sure to be more attention on DailyKOS about Argentina and its history. Certainly, this attention is needed if any of the comments I’ve read following the election of...
View ArticleAlmost Latina
There are two stories of my name. Growing up I was given the Gaelic version. The European heritage matched the narrative of my face: eyes that faded to gray-blue in spite of my mother’s campaign for...
View ArticleStrings and stakes
Other diaries in this series are: Fade to white, Somewhere warm, Day to day, and Haunted. They discuss my former partner of six years, her transition to living as a woman in 2009, and her death in...
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In the track of a train that never stops: the Dirty War in Argentina
One of many displays of the disappeared. In any diary I compose that falls under history, you will find this particular phrase: history is a conversation between the present and the past about the...
View ArticleThe way out is through
I was eighteen. The year 2000. I sat in front of the computer at midnight to see if anything would happen. My mother explained everyone logging in at once to see if anything happened might be the very...
View ArticleThe Great Okay
Other diaries in this series are: Fade to white | Somewhere warm | Day to day | Haunted | Strings and Stakes | The way out is throughThe transition back into your body is seamless for once, lacks the...
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The Grieving Room: Fragile
Welcome, fellow travelers on the grief journey and a special welcome to anyone who is new to The Grieving Room. We meet every Monday evening. Whether your loss is recent, or many years ago; whether...
View ArticleYour mechanism
(with apologies to William Gibson and John Green)Sometimes you still appear. You are there in the holidays we spent estranged, Thanksgiving in particular which you could never stand, and Christmas...
View ArticleFade to white
I remember you before all this. Before those awful shades reached up and pulled you back down. Nobody who knows would blame you, and none of us are thinking about who might be responsible. Not...
View ArticleSomewhere warm
Fade to white is the first entry in this series.My current partner is very insistent on this: “Don’t play anything like Amazing Grace or How Great Thou Art or I will zombie-burst from the coffin and...
View ArticleDay to day
Fade to white and Somewhere warm are the two previous diaries in this series.Log into student portal. Pay outrageous bill. Feed cat after headbutt reminds you today is a weekday and work happens. This...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Grieving Room: Haunted
Welcome, fellow travelers on the grief journey, and a special welcome to anyone who is new to The Grieving Room. We meet every Monday evening. Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, whether...
View ArticleQuick notes on Argentina and the Dirty War
Over the next few days there is sure to be more attention on DailyKOS about Argentina and its history. Certainly, this attention is needed if any of the comments I’ve read following the election of...
View ArticleAlmost Latina
There are two stories of my name. Growing up I was given the Gaelic version. The European heritage matched the narrative of my face: eyes that faded to gray-blue in spite of my mother’s campaign for...
View ArticleStrings and stakes
Other diaries in this series are: Fade to white, Somewhere warm, Day to day, and Haunted. They discuss my former partner of six years, her transition to living as a woman in 2009, and her death in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In the track of a train that never stops: the Dirty War in Argentina
One of many displays of the disappeared. In any diary I compose that falls under history, you will find this particular phrase: history is a conversation between the present and the past about the...
View Article