A life in words
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Mom’s Suicide
On March 1st, 2003 my mother shot herself in the head, ending her life at the age of 46. Today marks twelve years since that day. For much of that time I rarely ever spoke of my mother’s suicide. One small indication of this: the first posts on this blog were less than a year…
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Regarding Mom
As today marks the twelfth anniversary of her suicide, my mom is in my thoughts. After all these years I still struggle to make sense of her memory. I see it all from the child’s perspective I had when I knew her, and from that point of view she was a paradox: somebody immensely kind…
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This Wonderful World
Do yourself a huge favor and perform the following steps: Click here. Click on this button in the upper right. Spend hours gawking. TIP: You can get another batch of photos by clicking at the bottom. You may have noticed that hardly a post on this blog goes by without some sort of beautiful nature photo being…